Next Explorer to fail Acid test | Tech News on ZDNet

"'We will not pass this test when IE7 ships,' Chris Wilson, lead program manager for the Web platform in IE, wrote in the IE blog. 'We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support. We've dug through the Acid2 test and analyzed IE's problems with the test in some great detail, and we've made sure the bugs and features are on our list--however, there are some fairly large and difficult features to implement, and they will not all sort to the top of the stack in IE7.'

Standards advocates and Web developers have criticized Microsoft for letting Internet Explorer go without a significant upgrade for years. This spring it became clear that Microsoft would finally address long-standing standards-compliance issues in its planned version 7 upgrade.

Microsoft last week came out with a test, or 'beta' version, of its Windows Vista operating system and IE 7.

Wilson said the broad range of Acid2's demands made it more of a 'wish list' than a 'compliance test.'

'As a wish list, it is really important and useful to my team, but it isn't even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE7,' Wilson wrote.

The Web Standards Project responded positively to the announcement, hailing Microsoft's standards to-do list and its openness in acknowledging the test."

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