IE8, the latest version of world’s most popular browser Internet Explorer passes the web standard test called Acid2 test.
For those not familiar with Acid 2 test, here is small description: The web pages are designed using a coding language called HTML and to standardize the coding, we have many web standards. The acid2 test ensures that the browser follows the exact specified standard and hence web developers can easily create web pages based on these standards. In short, every page created following a particular standard should look same in all compatible standard-following browsers.
After passing Acid2 test, a browser should allow the following:
- Transparent PNGs - The eyes are encoded as transparent PNGs.
- The object element - The eyes of the face are attached to an object element. Being able to use object (which can have alternative content) is one of the oldest requests from web designers.
- Absolute, relative and fixed positioning - Being able to position elements accurately is important for advanced page layouts.
- Box model - The original Acid test focused on the CSS box model. Acid2 continues in this fine tradition by testing ‘height’, ‘width’, ‘max-width’, ‘min-width’, ‘max-height’ and ‘min-height’.
- CSS tables - There is nothing wrong with table layouts. It is a powerful layout model which makes sense on bigger screens. However, the table markup is troublesome as it ties the content to these screens. Therefore, being able to specify table layouts in CSS is important.
- Margins - CSS defines accurate algorithms for how margins around elements should be calculated.
- Generated content - The ability to add decorations and annotations to Web pages without modifying the markup has long been requested by authors.
- CSS parsing - Acid2 includes a number of illegal CSS statements that should be ignored by a compliant browser.
- Paint order - We test that overlapping content is painted in the right order. This is not a feature in itself, but a requirement for other features to work correctly.
- Line heights - The Acid2 test checks a few key parts of the CSS inline box model, upon which any standards-compliant Web page depends.
- Hovering effects - One of the elements in the face changes color when you hover over it. Which one?
For example, you can check your browser by visiting the acid2 test website. If you can see an emoticon, you can be sure that your browser is standard compliant.
If you are curious, you can check the list of browsers that have already passed this acid 2 test.
Microsoft has already worked hard of IE7 and that resulted in IE7 being more compatible with modern webstandards. Still IE7 is lacking the compatibility the FireFox 2 or Opera can deliver. With the introduction of IE8, MS plans to improve the browser market share.
Internet Explorer 8 is expected to be released in first half of 2008.
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