IE8 Beta

[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.