In case you are interested, whether IE8 has better standard compliance or not, it was just announced that the current build of the IE8 passes the ACID2 -test in standards mode.
I find this very promising and hopefully the web standard compliancy of the next IE will be much better.
It is good that they also mention, that passing the ACID2 test isn’t indication of being standards compliant:
"At first glance, this test seems simple. I think it actually offers a view into the subtle and complex world of web standards in a number of ways. Showing the Acid2 page correctly is a good indication of being standards compliant, but Acid2 itself isn’t a web standard or a web standards compliance test. The publisher of the test, the Web Standards Project, is an advocacy group, not a web standards defining body."
Also:
"With respect to standards and interoperability, our goal in developing Internet Explorer 8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations and do so without breaking the existing web."
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April 28, 2009 at 11:33 |
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