IE8 Passes the Acid2 Test

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A few of you may be wondering what the Acid2 test actually is. There's a Wikipedia article about it, but basically it's a test designed to highlight flaws in the way a browser renders CSS and HTML. Any standards compliant browser will render the image of the Acid2 Face correctly. As you can imagine, IE doesn't render the face correctly at the moment.

However, all that is about to change. Today, Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted an entry on the IEBlog declaring that the latest build of IE8 now passes the Acid2 test.

All I can say is, "About time!". I'm very much looking forward to not have to put up with all the quirks IE causes with compliant code. Of course, who knows when it'll be released, but it's a step in the right direction at least.

Obviously Acid2 doesn't test everything about the standards compliance, so it will be interesting to see if it copes with everything else.

Oh, and for those who are wondering, Firefox 2 fails the test and Opera 9 passes. Hopefully Firefox 3 will pass once it's out of beta. You can take the test here.

Tags : internet, css, browsers