Internet Explorer 8 Passes the ‘Acid2′ Test | Microsoft to Release IE 8 Beta 1 in First Half of 2008
Quoted from Internet News: Internet Explorer 8 Passes the ‘Acid2′ Test
Microsoft announced Wednesday it has passed an early milestone for the next version of its iconic Internet Explorer. An early version of the pre-beta code for IE 8.0 has successfully passed the so-called Acid2 browser compatibility tests, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager on Microsoft’s IE team, said in a blog post.
From IEBlog, an external Microsoft blog:
For IE8, we want to communicate facts, not aspirations. We’re posting this information now because we have real working code checked in and we’re confident about delivering it in the final product. We’re listening to the feedback about IE, and at the same time, we are committed to responsible disclosure and setting expectations properly. Now that we’ve run the test on multiple machines and seen it work, we’re excited to be able to share definitive information.
While blog posts and links to videos are a good start, publicly available code is even better. We will have a lot more information available at sessions at MIX08 and will release a beta of IE8 in the first half of calendar 2008.
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
What do you want to bet that Silverlight will be standard equipment within IE8?!?
Flash achieved penetration of the browser market over 90% in a matter of years. Microsoft could do it in a matter of months with Silverlight merely by making it an option. IE currently has approximately 82% of the browser market share, with a high in 2004 of 95%.
For the Tech Comm Crowd:
This means that your content better be W3C compliant if you don’t want to have to go back and redo it.
Additionally, Silverlight could bridge the gap easily between IE, XBox 360, Media Center, Vista, and Windows XP after this update.
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