IE8 beta is out
March 5th, 2008
A lot of people were really optimistic when it was announced that IE 8 would render Acid2, something that Firefox2 can't even do (Firefox beta3 can however).
It was thought that Microsoft was finally catching up in terms of standards compliance with the other popular browsers. To bad that rendering Acid2 doesn't really mean that the browser is 'standards compliant'. It just means that it can render the subset of the standard that Acid2 tests. With the release of Acid3, it looks like Microsoft focused solely on rendering Acid2, not on the standards in general. IE8 scored a poor 17/100 on Acid3.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Apple's latest Webkit beta scored 86/100.
1 Response to “IE8 beta is out”
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March 6th, 2008 at 12:32 AM I'm a WebKit fan myself, but I think we can all agree that IE is our three-quarter-retarded uncle that looks at us funny when we ask him how he's doing at family functions.