At the time of writing, the ACID2 test has completely collapsed under the weight of IE8 beta users. Couldn’t confirm this but I don’t see why it would be faked. Guess something happened between then and now.
Special thanks to Jay C. for sending this in.
Update: Tony Chor from the IE team has explained that it’s caused by cross-domain links which are not supported by IE8 Beta 1 for the moment. If you visit the original Acid2 test on IE8 Beta 1, it works fine.
MetroTwit
I can confirm that the IE8 Beta 1 is failing ACID2
This only happens when you refresh the page. Upon entering the page, it looks just fine.
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9026/ie8b1acid2wm0.jpg
Like I said, after refreshing, it breaks. But if you click the page, it fixes itself for some reason.
Acid2 passes with flying colors in IE8 on Vista, so maybe a bug with the XP version?
@Christ123NT
Don’t think so … Same weird thing on my Vista too….
Renders fine here (IE8 Vista).
Acid 2 passes for me too in xp even after refresh! Could have been just down to the heavy traffic!
renders fine here too…….
upon refresh, it does at first appear like the image you posted, but if you wait for the page to complete loading, it will appear 100% fine.
It fails the ACID2 test here, it also horribly fails the new ACID3 test – with a score 17/100.
Hello,
Here’s the explination from the IE team on their blog website:
“You can try the Acid2 test here http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top (although their site seems to be down right now.) The test doesn’t work from the other domains you listed because the call for the eyes is cross domain; IE8 currently doesn’t trust that cross domain call. We’re working through whether we can change that for beta 2 safely”
I tried the test from this url:
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
and IE8 on XP SP2 passed it, and I confirm what damaster wrote: there is an intermediate rendering that looks almost like the snapshot you posted, but after a quick blink it shows the correct image.
this link works
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
this one doesn’t
http://webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
can’t click to select the end of the line in this text box, and arrow keys are erratic
Same with me. Appears briefly, then corrects itself and passes.
Don’t use IE8 Beta 1 in Vista when you have chosen 120 dpi for the system. Will make Windows Sidebar unusable (!), most websites ugly and even the Acid 2 test does not work. Although Beta 1 is very unstable for me, it has really great new features to explore.
IE8B1 passes Acid2 test on Vista. Have not tried it on XP yet, so I cannot confirm anything about that. I hit refresh three times and it just takes a second to look correct again. By the time the page is fully loaded it passes.
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
A friend says it passes on XP.
Acid 3 fails horribly.
I’m sorry if this is unrealted to the acid2 test, but what I want to know is, will IE8 fix the rendering problems in MS outlook 2007??
@George
No, Outlook 2007 uses Word’s (very incomplete) rendering engine for security reasons.
IE8 might be ACID 2 compliant… but it sure doesn’t like XHTML.
As the IE team stated on their blog, IE8 will break many existing Web pages. This behavior is by design.
You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…
Fails, but better than IE7 at least. Long: Nice job on the new layout! Especially like the PNG menu frames on the left side.
It passed acid2 test on my xp machine, why are some peop;le reporting otherwise?
it is more stable than i imagined.
@ tino, thanks! this saves me some time!
I’ve got a little question and a little offtopic. IE8 highlights the main domain by default. Is there a FireFox plugin which does the same? Thanks ^^
Safari screws it up too when refreshed, its part of the design of the test
That’s wrong.
It looks like that when it’s loading only.
@sebas : There is one Locationbar : https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/4014 Enjoy
Thanks Draku!
it fails. not as horribly as ie7, but it fails.
http://cid-8a8bcef1efc62a18.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Pictures/Acid2 %20Sucks.jpg
For me IE 8, on Windows Ultimate Fails to
Alex, you’re running it in Ie7 compliant mode! No wonder is fails!
Untick the “7″ button in the toolbar, reset IE 8 and try again :-p