IE8 Beta

[Dark Jaguar]

Well IE8 is out now. Finally passes Acid2, but doesn't come close to passing Acid3 (Nor does Firefox actually).

Oh, but it sucks at rendering TC.

[A Black Falcon]

Oh, but it sucks at rendering TC.

All sites should be optimized for Mozilla/Firefox!

[Dark Jaguar]

Well I just found the meta tag that can be inserted into a web page to tell IE8 to render it the "old way". I'm too lazy to bother trying to add the tag myself, and further I'm not sure there's a readily available way to add a meta tag to the whole forum system or if it requires editing the scripts manually.

[etoven]

Yea, I'm trying it now.....
It sucks....

And Google toolbar crashes it...

[etoven]

I'm trying Firefox 3 now....
Lets just say.... Erich Liky.....

[Dark Jaguar]

I consider "toolbars" pointless resource consumers myself.

[Sacred Jellybean]

I find Firefox's search toolbar to be quite helpful. I've been thinking about giving Opera a whirl, because I'm tired of Firefox bogging down my shitty desktop. I'm using my work's laptop right now, laying in bed. I have to wake up in 5 hours. Fucking insomnia. I don't know why I don't use this laptop more often. I thought I'd love the convenience of it, but I haven't felt compelled to move from my desktop. Even if I want to lay down and read something, I'll drag a nearby swivel chair and sort of lay down sideways on both chairs, curled up in a fetal position, and look upwards to read the monitor. It's a bitch on the neck and you can't fall asleep that way for more than say 10 minutes, but my laziness knows no bounds sometimes. It's certainly easier than booting up a laptop.

I've never heard about Acid... how does it compare to the other popular browsers?

[Dark Jaguar]

Well there's a "search bar" built into IE now, even IE7. I'm talking about those extra installable bars. They all just eat resources without giving anything in return! *points at Yahoo! bar* YOU GET A JOB!

Acid isn't a browser by the way. It's a stringent test made by the internet standards group to see how well a browser conforms to standards. It actually breaks net standards but the way it's designed is that a standards compliant browser will properly handle all the errors in coding in the same way, resulting specifically in a certain page. (They have a "sample page" showing what a given test is supposed to look like.)

Opera was the first to pass Acid 2. After that was the Firefox 3 alpha. IE8's Beta is the first IE version to be able to pass the test.

That in mind, as new standards develop, they've expanded the test. They've released Acid 3, which no current browser can render correctly.

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

[Sacred Jellybean]

Well there's a "search bar" built into IE now, even IE7. I'm talking about those extra installable bars. They all just eat resources without giving anything in return! *points at Yahoo! bar* YOU GET A JOB!

Acid isn't a browser by the way. It's a stringent test made by the internet standards group to see how well a browser conforms to standards. It actually breaks net standards but the way it's designed is that a standards compliant browser will properly handle all the errors in coding in the same way, resulting specifically in a certain page. (They have a "sample page" showing what a given test is supposed to look like.)

Opera was the first to pass Acid 2. After that was the Firefox 3 alpha. IE8's Beta is the first IE version to be able to pass the test.

That in mind, as new standards develop, they've expanded the test. They've released Acid 3, which no current browser can render correctly.

http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Thanks, that's pretty interesting. Good to know there's a independent standardization taking place for the internet, instead of a big name browser doing it's own thing and implicitly setting the standard.