Simon Willison’s Weblog

A browser sniffing warning: The trouble with Acid3 and TinyMCE. Opera recommend “bug detection”, a step up from object detection and browser sniffing where your JavaScript includes mini unit test style fragments of code designed to test if buggy behaviour you are working around still affects the user’s browser.

# 4th July 2008, 8:24 am / bugdetection, javascript, object, browsers, opera, objectdetection, browsersniffing, acid3, tinymce

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.

# 20th December 2007, 3:11 pm / css, ie8, web-standards, acid2, kevinyank, tablelayout, generatedcontent, object