Yes it’s true, a blog post over at the ie blog state that the new IE8 passes the ACID 2 test.

For those who don’t know, ACID 2 is a test case designed by the Web Standards Project to identify web page rendering flaws in browsers and authoring tools.

Up until recently only Opera, Safari and Konqueror were successfully passing the ACID2 test. Firefox 3.0 should pass it too.

Good sign for the future!

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You heard right, internet explorer will be updated to remove the “functionality” where you needed to click on activeX object before being able to use them.

If you don’t recall, in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas Technologies inc, removing the “click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer.

Even if it was easy to work around it. It is still cool for the end user, because not all the sites had the fix applied.

To bad this update fixes only a minor issue…and not the major issue the browser is.

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I’ve been in some situations where I need to support a company doing the back end on some templates I produced. The problem is that those companies often have little knowledge of web standards, XHTML/CSS and such, and my templates….well they’re standard based.

Got me to think about how recognized is a web integrator in the industry. Most companies don’t seem to recognize this as a full time job, some of them sees it as a programmer job, others sees it as a designer job. In a company where your specialty is developing back end you sure don’t care much about the front end. But it IS important. The whole user experience depends on how the information is presented to the user, how the website reacts and how the site “feels”.

What’s the point of having a whole flow where you define wire frames, use cases, technical specs of a website and provide HTML templates on which all you have to do is plug your code when in the end it’s in big part dumped cause of “technical difficulties”. Having this knowledge in house can save you tons of work, time and money. Not only that, but the overall product will probably be a whole lot better.

Because you’re behind the scene, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about what’s happening up front!

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