Congratulations: CSS Celebrates their 10-Year Anniversary
Yay! Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are celebrating their 10-year anniversary! It seems like only yesterday that I was being told to design websites using only tables because that was the way to line things up and create professional looking websites. Now all of the buzz is about making tableless sites that use only CSS for the formatting and layout.
This is also a good time to look back on the other things that CSS has brought us, such as the Acid 1 test. The screenshot that I took to the right is from Firefox 2 taking the test and I was relieved that it did pass the test. Even Internet Explorer 7 passed the Acid 1 test as well as Opera 9. I didn’t try it in previous versions of the browsers but I did hear that Internet Explorer didn’t start passing the Acid 1 test until version 6.
Hopefully an Acid 3 test doesn’t come out anytime soon because it will take Internet Explorer another 4 to 5 versions before they can pass the Acid 2 test. I only wish I was kidding. 
Congratulations once again to W3C for their ten years of style, literally!
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BTW, is it truth, that Microsoft plans to start working on IE 8.0 very soon?
Interesting. If they do, then IE 8.0 will be for Windows Vista only. All others will use Firefox
But if they don’t, then Firefox3, Firefox4, Firefox5, … will beat IE7 off the scene. Wrong browser must die 
Yes, I have heard that Internet Explorer 8 is already in the works and they hope to address some more standards issues that are still in the browser. Last I heard Microsoft is trying to get on a one-year release schedule for Internet Explorer again, so next fall we should see Internet Explorer 8.
IE8 is still in the planning stages. I predict IE9 will pass the Acid 2 test, although 8 will have greatly improved rendering.
(Please note I will be working on IE8 come the summer as a Microsoft intern.)
Yay! You’ll be my secret insider.
IE needs a complete engine rewrite. (This is what Mozilla did with Netscare 4.x, and they got perfect “Gecko” engine).
AFAIK, Microsoft rewrote (replaced with NEW code, not just fixed) some parts of IE6 engine. How much percents of IE engine was changed for v7.0? It looks like 3-5%. Not so much. Could be much more, if they hadn’t implement tabbed browsing, PNG transparency, and RSS support.
Maybe IE 8.0 will be much bigger step forward? I mean standards compliance.
I am very grateful that IE 7 has PNG support though, that bugged me for a very long time!