IE8 passes the Acid2 test
From the IEBlog, the Dec 12 build of the upcoming Internet Explorer version 8 has passed the Acid2 test. This means that IE continues to increase it’s compliance with web standards, and should be joining the ranks of Opera, Safari, and Firefox (beta 3).
As a web developer, I’m happier today. One of the biggest time sinks I experience right now when building pages is making sure that the top browsers and versions display the pages well – or well enough for the visitor to not notice. IE6 is a bear. It takes good looking pages and throws them into a blender. I’ve just now gotten tot he point where I can fairly often predict what layout code will cause problems in IE6 and what workarounds I need to use – through IE6-specific CSS. Now I can at least look forward to the day where people will migrate off of IE6.
In fact, I would be of the mind to stop designing for IE6 once the new version comes out and only build pages for web standards compliant browsers – regardless of browser web visit stats. Right now for my work site we have about 30% of the visitors still on IE6 (compared to 32% on Firefox and 30% on IE7). Assuming IE8 comes out sometime in late 2008 or so, I can’t imagine many people still on IE6…
…here’s to hoping anyways.
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