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1. Nelson

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:19 am

   I can confirm that the IE8 Beta 1 is failing ACID2

2. Andre F.

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:22 am

   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.

3. Chris123NT

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am

   Acid2 passes with flying colors in IE8 on Vista, so maybe a bug with the XP version?

4. Warren

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:26 am

   @Christ123NT

   Don’t think so … Same weird thing on my Vista too….

5. ClintEastman

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am

   Renders fine here (IE8 Vista).

6. Euphoria3k

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:27 am

   Acid 2 passes for me too in xp even after refresh! Could have been just down to the heavy traffic!

7. damaster

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am

   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.

8. Ark_mage2

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am

   It fails the ACID2 test here, it also horribly fails the new ACID3 test - with a score 17/100.

9. Nelson

   Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am

   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”

10. EnricoG

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am

    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.

11. garyk

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    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

12. azz0r

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Same with me. Appears briefly, then corrects itself and passes.

13. tino

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    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.

14. Russ

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am

    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.

15. George

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    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??

16. David

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    @George

    No, Outlook 2007 uses Word’s (very incomplete) rendering engine for security reasons.

17. Jason Cartwright

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    IE8 might be ACID 2 compliant… but it sure doesn’t like XHTML.

18. James

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    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…

19. Bryan

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Fails, but better than IE7 at least. Long: Nice job on the new layout! Especially like the PNG menu frames on the left side.

20. yaman

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    It passed acid2 test on my xp machine, why are some peop;le reporting otherwise?
    it is more stable than i imagined.

21. Sebas

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 7:22 pm

    @ 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 ^^

22. tryagain

    Mar 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Safari screws it up too when refreshed, its part of the design of the test

23. Karl Roos

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 2:57 am

    That’s wrong.
    It looks like that when it’s loading only.

24. Draku

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 6:39 am

    @sebas : There is one Locationbar : https://addons.mozilla.org/ro/firefox/addon/4014 Enjoy

25. Sebas

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Thanks Draku!

26. Alex

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 11:14 am

    it fails. not as horribly as ie7, but it fails.

    http://cid-8a8bcef1efc62a18.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Pictures/Acid2 %20Sucks.jpg

27. Imran

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    For me IE 8, on Windows Ultimate Fails to

28. James

    Mar 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    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

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