March 17, 2005
Acid Test for Browsers
Hakon Wium Lie, chief technology officer of Opera Software challenges Microsoft:
Microsoft now has the chance to redeem itself with regard to Web interoperability. All it needs to do is make sure IE 7 passes the Acid2 test before shipping.
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To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged. They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first thing you type into it:
Anne says that this test could expose some bugs in "better browsers" as well.