Microsoft’s IE8 vaporware passing Acid2 gets cheered in corporate media
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| All Microsoft did was produce a screenshot ostensibly demonstrating MSIE8
| passing Acid2. They distributed no code for people to verify this alleged
| standards compliance for themselves, not even proprietary code. To me this
| represents a significant low in how many people are willing to give credit
| for something they can’t verify, something typically called vaporware.
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2007/12/23/microsofts-ie8-vaporware-passing-acid2-gets-cheered-in-corporate-media/
http://tinyurl.com/2wxgwb
IE's Acid trip back to conflict
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| Opera's call to the EU coincides with the news that Microsoft spin-of Zumobi
| (formerly ZenZui) has released the first beta version of its mobile browser
| that aims to compete with - among others - yes, Opera.
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| Several years back Microsoft gave up on IE as a separate product, believing
| it was mission accomplished in browsers and there wasn't anything left to
| innovate. That gave Firefox, with tabbed browsing and better security, a foot
| in the door and spurred Microsoft into making IE available again as a
| separate download. 2008 promises to confirm that - more than 10 years after
| the browser wars ended - there remains much to do in browser development and
| that hostilities are back on.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/24/ie8_acid2_standards/
Related:
The Firefox Kid
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| Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success
| stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now
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http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696
Old:
Firefox (on a development branch) passing the Acid2 test
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| This is a build of Firefox on the reflow branch, a development branch
| on which I'm making major changes to the way Gecko does intrinsic
| width computation and incremental layout, showing the Acid2 test
| being passed.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbaron/126886608/
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