Brennan’s Blog

Great news for web designers and developers, IE8 now passes the Acid2 test. You can see for yourself on Channel 9. The video shows the actual rendered image in their nightly IE8 build which will not be out until the first half of 2008. That could mean late February or late June. I expect we will get a Beta 1 release followed by a Release Candidate a month so that we can all try it out and report any breaking changes it may have caused in our websites and web applications.

I am not sure what this really means for CSS compliance. It would be great to get Firefox 3 and IE8 up to CSS Level 2 and then get moving to CSS Level 3 next. That would allow for automatically flowing multi-column layouts and other basic features the people in the print world have enjoyed for years.