Internet Explorer 7

**John83** · 17/11/2006, 7:07 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

Last reports I saw said it was near-as-dammit to CSS2 compliance anyway, dunno about XHTML. Perhaps they stripped out some compliance beforehand. I stand by my comment about rendering though, I've tried it and it mangles some sites (for the right reasons).

adam

It was shown to completely screw up on the acid2 test not long ago.

**dahamsta** · 17/11/2006, 7:13 PM

Fair enough. Of course the only browser that passes the Acid2 test is Opera 9, and I absolutely hate Opera.

**joeSoap** · 21/11/2006, 12:59 PM

Whats the acid2 test??

**tetsujin1979** · 21/11/2006, 2:39 PM

Originally Posted by joeSoap

Whats the acid2 test??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
It's a test to determine how close to the web standards a browser is by displaying a smiley face created using these standards. To date only a few browsers have passed it by displaying the face correctly.
Firefox comes close to displaying it, and IE mangles it altogether

**GavinZac** · 26/11/2006, 9:46 AM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
It's a test to determine how close to the web standards a browser is by displaying a smiley face created using these standards. To date only a few browsers have passed it by displaying the face correctly.
Firefox comes close to displaying it, and IE mangles it altogether

the development builds of firefox 3 are passing it