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The menace of the Opera

Read it and cry

So... To my masses of readers.. both of you.. What do you think about this?


1. Read:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx
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2. Read http://alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
3. Open: http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top
4. View source (CTRL+U)
Notice:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>
<head>
The Second Acid Test

Now will they really pass Acid 2?
And how much fun do you think this will be for all of us? This is not only going to cost more for us making web browsers, but also for the web developers..

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Comments

NoteMe 22. January 2008, 17:04

+1 points to Microsoft
-1 points to those who love the web
+1 points to those who never spent the extra hours writing standard compliant code while making sure it still worked in browsers that never cared (they saved time by beeing lazy)
-1 points to those who spent all their time thinking they helped the web advance, while in the end the result was just a few pages bumped up an other version number


It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if my mum was right when I was young and she told me stealing and lying would not get me anywhere in the end. Maybe beeing lazy and breaking rules would help me get a few extra years of health in the end.


- ØØ -

YtseJam 22. January 2008, 22:36

I am interested to read Opera's official stance on this...

HerwigF 28. June 2008, 06:25

When reading the cited MS page http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx with Opera 9.51 build 10080 (RC2) after the content has fully loaded, then the page cannot be scrolled. (No problem in FF3 and, of course, in IE.)

Maybe they are doing some tricky things there, but anyway, it's sort of annoying...

Cheers, Herwig

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