According to the IE blog, Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid test.
For those of you unaware, the Acid test is a pretty standardized test given to browsers to determine how compliant they are with W3C standards. It basically uses funky CSS to expect the browser to properly interpret what should be rendered and how. If rendered properly, you get a smiley face. When I last checked, Safari for Windows had the best face.
The image of the graphic given to IE8 was perfect.
After spending the last two days engaged in hand-to-hand combat with IE6 –Â whining and wishing IE6 would just roll over and die — the folks over at IEblog announce that I IE8 is officially being discussed.
I’m probably a little bit more optimistic than some of the commenters in that post. The amount of animosity developers have towards Internet Explorer (and Microsoft in general) is amazing. I’m not saying it isn’t warranted. Had IE6 developers decided to support PNG’s way back when IE6 was launched, I probably could have added a year’s worth of sleep to my life.
But sometimes I wonder if it’s a little out of hand. It’s like watching the Dixie Chicks in their documentary, Shut Up and Dance, except I guess in this lame analogy, we’re the morons who would run bulldozers over their records.
