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Does IE8 Really Pass Acid2? [Updated]

Posted by kdawson on from the two-green-eyes-please dept.

thevirtualcat found some inconsistencies in IE8's Acid2 results that made him wonder what's going on. Can anyone replicate these results or, better yet, explain them?
Update: 03/22 23:54 GMT by KD : Several readers pointed out this has to do with cross-site scripting prevention, as described here.

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  1. Yes, that's true. by Erris · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but ActiveX will never be secure. I noticed this a week ago but did not think it worth mentioning. No one really believes IE will really be standards compliant or secure, do they?

    It's nice of them to try, but you have to question the utility and sanity of such a massive NIH effort as IE is. At this point, an honest company would throw in the towel and call IE a file browser then try to catch up to Konqueror in that regard. M$ has gone it's own way so long that the quickest route for them to a standards compliant browser is to download Firefox.

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  2. just use firefox by rock3r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well firefox is better don't matter. My blog http://scenewarez.blogspot.com/