Opera Lays Down Acid2 Challenge

sebFlyte writes "The CTO of Opera has proposed a new version of the acid test for browser compatibility, and has challenged Microsoft to make IE7 a browser worth having that will do the Web good. He's asked to help from Web designers the world over to build a new page for Microsoft to test IE7 with to make sure it does everything Web designers want it to. "

Comments

Re:Implementing full standards would help

[bersl2]

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Test/?

Re:Why Bother?

[Low2000]

Because if IE becomes more standards complient, that means that web coders will make their websites standards compliant. Thats good for the alternative browsers out there like Firefox and Opera more then anyone else. MS has enjoyed being in control of the bulk of the web browsing community for so long that if their browser doesn't conform to standards, the web coders have to conform to the browser.

Re:Like, render Slashdot the same way every time?

[say]

What's funny is that Slashdot gives an HTTP 403 to validator.w3.org

I saved the source of this comment page and fed it to the validator. Made 117 errors, among them a fairly serious one:

Line 2007, column 7: end tag for "TABLE" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this

It also has _tons_ of unclosed LI tags. These obviously can mess up the display quite a lot. Except for that, the errors are mainly cosmetic - & instead of & and some spurious attributes which aren't in the 3.2 standard (nobr, iframe height etc.).

The missing </table> is probably the most serious issue.