IE 8: On the Path to Web Standards Compliance - ACID 2 Test Pass Complete

Posted By: Charles | Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:03 PM | 171,580 Views | 56 Comments
The IE team has been very hard at work on IE 8 for the past several months and they hit a huge milestone last Friday evening. The IE dev team checked in a bunch of code that included several new features implemented in the core rendering engine that enable IE to pass the ACID 2 test! This is great news for web developers: IE 8 is going to be our most standards compliant browser to date. Passing ACID 2 is really a combined side effect of all the new features that have been developed for IE 8.

In this interview, I sit down with IE GM Dean Hachamovitch and Architect Chris Wilson to discuss this milestone and dig into compliance in general, lessons learned from IE 7 and discuss the IE team's ultimate goal of de facto interoperability. Of course, no Channel 9 interview is complete without meeting some of the devs who actually write technology so we take a walk from Dean's office to super developer Alex Mogilevsky's office to discuss what's been done to provide IE with the core rendering features that enable IE 8 to pass the ACID 2 test. We also chat with CSS guru Markus Mielke who was instrumental in identifying and planning the feature set required to pass ACID 2.

Tune in!
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#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:11 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Holy CSS compliance batman! That's fantastic!
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:15 PM
esoteric
esoteric
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Nice! Kudos to the IE team. Downloading...
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:18 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change
W3bbo wrote:
This needs a "Digg this" link


Go ahead and Digg it, man! The link you speak of will be in the next version of C9.
C
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:21 PM
Bas
Bas
It finds lightbulbs.
Oh, and Charles: my wish is more than granted. It's a Christmas miracle!

Thanks man!
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:32 PM
Zeo
Zeo
Channel 9 :)
W3bbo. You beat me to digging it! Nice Job. Big Smile
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:34 PM
ktr
ktr
two sides to everything
Charles, you are awesome. Thank you IE team! CSS Compliance is all important! three cheers!
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 12:58 PM
Ion Todirel
Ion Todirel
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wow, this is incredible for two reasons, first is posted on C9, i love you Charles, and this is an awesone news, rock on
#Dec 19th, 2007 @ 1:07 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
CompGuy101 wrote:
Didn't Microsoft publicly say that the Acid2 test wasn't one of their primary focuses?


For IE7, they remained tight-lipped about IE8.
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