Perhaps the sweetest drug for webmasters is the gearing of Microsoft towards better CSS compliance in their web browser, Internet Explorer. It has been ages since the dawn of web browsers that the coding of a webpage, or rather, the CSS styling codes, are interpreted differently by Internet Explorer and other web browsers. Webmaster had been forever drawn into rounds and rounds of headache in making coding a website to display correctly in both Internet Explorer and other web browsers like Firefox. Internet Explorer 7.0 was no different, even though it managed to be a little better in CSS compliance as compared to its predecessor, making the wish of fully CSS compliance a wishlist for Internet Explorer 8.
Today’s news comes along that Internet Explorer 8 has passed Acid2 test. Acid2 is one test of how modern browsers work with some specific features across several different web standard. In laymen words, once your browser can display this web page correctly, it passes the test and follows W3C HTML and CSS 2.0 specification. Thumbs up for Microsoft for getting this headache off every webmaster’s mind, at last! While it may not be a big deal for the end user, it certainly is a big deal for webmasters as it eases up a lot of unwanted time to code something two times.
On a side note, it is said Internet Explorer 8 will be having a beta in the first half of 2008, so cross your fingers if you find Internet Explorer 7.0 lacking to your taste.
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