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IE8 Passes Acid2 Test. This is huge. As Kevin Yank points out, this means IE8 includes proper support for the object tag, CSS table layout properties and generated content.

Posted 20th December 2007 at 3:11 pm

Tagged acid2, css, generatedcontent, ie8, kevinyank, object, tablelayout, webstandards

5 comments

data: urls, too, yes? Although...weren't there two versions of Acid2, one of which didn't include data urls?

sil - 20th December 2007 16:49 - #
Chris Wilson said they are passing the one with data: URIs.

Anne van Kesteren - 20th December 2007 16:55 - #
Either that or they just scan for the source of the Acid test and display a graphic resource if it's found. That's how I'd do it. It's agile. ;)

Rory Parle - 20th December 2007 18:39 - #
Time to write Acid3.

wiz - 28th December 2007 15:01 - #
Late to this party, but now that IE8 beta is out it is worth mentioning that so far IE8 has no proper support for object, since the fallback is invalid. Ian H considers this a bug in the implementation. So do I.
Lars Gunther - 9th March 2008 21:51 - #