I watched with interest the channel9 video from the IE team that IE 8 has finally passed the ACID2 test, which is one measure of standards compliance. they have a small movie showing how the ACID2 test progressed with various builds over the past few months (it should draw a smiley face, similar to the Aceed logo of the 80’s). It finally draws the image correctly.
You can try it yourself with your own browser here http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html but don’t forget to check the reference image to see what it should look like (IE7 is not ACID2 compliant).
What is amazing is how far out of compliance some browsers are. If you are still using IE 6 I encourage and implore you to get upgraded to a better browser capability as provided by IE7, Firefox 2 or Opera 9. Its only when you compare the CSS rendering of FF2, O9 or IE7 with IE6 that you see how slow, wheezy and downright inaccurate it is with a modern AJAX site. As a company committed to providing our web services to appear like desktop apps using AJAX, IE 6 users always complain but it truly is their browser and not our sites which are at fault. If people won’t move on we can’t make the experience better. Its no good saying the display is rubbish and slow in IE6, its never going to get any better. So move on up, please!
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