Everyone in the industry knows that Microsoft invented new web standards since may be Internet Explorer 4. That was a nightmare for all of us web programmers that fight everyday battles with browsers’ compatibility. There are so many hacks one have to know just to create a page that looks the same on the most common browsers. A programmer have just to hack JavaScript, hack CSS and write tons of code which bloats the users’ browsers and makes things worse. I am really happy that FireFox was born and created to be compatible with 99%(for you may be different but still) of the web standards. Now we have those really good tools with that browser such as Fire Bug, Web Developer etc. They show us what’s wrong in the code and we fix it in a minute. What about IE? Nothing. Just trial and error until you see the script works! I did really hope that IE7 will look and act cool but that was a mirage.

Now we have IE8 beta and people are testing it for compatibility and if something’s wrong to fix their sites before the browser sees the light.

And there is that Acid2 test from The Web Standards Project that shows the dirty shirts of all browsers. The Acid2 test is written especially for the developers of the web browsers to check and be sure their products are current and work well with most of the web pages on the net. Acid2 is a complex test that uses many different techniques for displaying objects on the web page. It cannot cover 100% of everything that can be used on a page but the most important features as well the less used ones are tested with Acid2. Webmasters and programmers ask for many different features that they wont to test and WASP compiles all those requests in one complex test.

And if IE8 beta passed that smiley face on the test, we may have great time with IE8 and hopefully FF3 after a while.