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2006-08-28 00:15:37 UTC |
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IE 7 RC1 acid2 test |
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Toronto, Canada |
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IE7 RC1 has gone public. And according to the [IE Blog][2], there were [quite a few bugfixes][3]. Kudos for that! It will take a while before we can actually drop support for IE 6, and I think this applies to the most of us, since some even still support IE5 for mac..
So I decided to give it a try.. Installation was a bit tricky, because it didnt complete the first time I tried it and the second time it took around 20 minutes to complete.. After the reboot it would hang when i tried starting it, but when I started it 'without add-ons' it worked. Sadly I won't be able to use it because the 'manage add-ons' is grayed out so I can't disable the troubling add-ons.. And no add-ons, means no flash..
I wanted to run IE 7 through the [acid2 test][4] and see if it would be any better than the last versions.. Here's the result (click to enlarge):
As you can see, although the Internet Explorer team fixed a lot of bugs, it's not quite yet near to standards... although it is a lot closer than the previous version.
Firefox still has some bugs too, right now the only browsers that are fully acid2-compliant are [Opera 9][5] and [KHTML][6]-based browsers such as [Safari][7] and [Konqueror][8].
{:.dead-link} [2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ "Internet Explorer Team Blog" [3]: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/08/22/712830.aspx [4]: https://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html "ACID2 test" [5]: http://www.opera.com/ [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML [7]: http://www.apple.com/safari/ [8]: http://www.konqueror.org/features/browser.php