[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 13-01-2010 21:31, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article<4b4e7946$0$279$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> On 13-01-2010 08:50, AEF wrote:
>>> I actually tried IE8 at work, hoping it would be better than IE6. But
>>> it was blurrier on the monitor. I checked it on others' machines and
>>> the blurriness varied, and all the monitors were ViewSonics. (I did
>>> only check 2 or 3 others, but mine was blurrier than IE6 and that's
>>> all that really mattered to me.) So I went back to IE6. And I did
>>> check if you could do that before I tried IE8. It turns out that all
>>> you have to do is uninstall it, except that a certain OS patch would
>>> get in the way if you have it and you'd have to uninstall that first,
>>> then reinstall after expunging IE8 from your machine.
>>>
>>> I do have Firefox installed at work and I use that for some sites, but
>>> others work better on IE6. Hate the spastic Find function in IE6, but
>>> at least you can use it to highlight a link, or get near it with an
>>> easier target and then tab to the link, and without the mouse just
>>> press Return and it works! Safari can't do that, but Safari is better
>>> with multiple choice items in forms and for printing. Safari puts all
>>> the print params on a single page! I've never understood why all the
>>> important things like page size, orientation, number of copies,
>>> certain things on the Page Setup dialog box and such aren't all in one
>>> place. WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY PUT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE LIKE SAFARI
>>> DOES? Arghhhh.
>>
>> IE6 is pretty bad in AJAX context due to its deviation
>>from the standards. IE8 is a lot better. It actually passed
>> ACID2.
>
> Let me know when it can pass ACID3.  AFAIK, only Safari does so.  Firefox is
> close.  It gets to 93/100.

Opera 10 also passed.

IE8 will most likely never pass ACID3. It will be IE9.

Arne