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            • March 21, 2006

              Acid 2 :: Take:Two (and Don't Call Me In The Morning!)

            • Since I'm one of the few hackers left that actually uses Windows on a regular basis, much less Internet Explorer, I guess by default I'd best do my duty and provide a quick update to my previous Acid 2 comparison test.

              Oh wait... firstly, I guess I should preface this with the fact that there is another preview version of IE7 available, cleverly labeled:

              Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th

              This would, of course, be in replacement for:

              Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - not released on March 20th

              Of course never wanting to confuse things even further, here's a sample "clarification" follow-up comment to yesterdays announcement:

              Beta 2 isn't even out yet and we have a final release later.

              So, in other words,

              This is not Beta 2, but the second preview release thats leading up to Beta 2, which is labeled "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th" which SHOULD NOT be confused with "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - not released on March 20th" (and really, how could it be???!!! ;) which will eventually be replaced by Beta 2, to then be followed up with a "final release later."

              Q: "final release later."? Does that refer to a final Final release, or a final Beta 2 release?

              You know what... Nevermind... I don't want to know.

              Okay then.... So, now that we have that all cleared up lets first look at what the Acid 2 test results should look like:

              acid2-reference.png

              Okay.

              Next, "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - not released on March 20th":

              acid2-ie7beta2pre.png

              Huh...

              Well, on the positive side, I guess it couldn't get much worse than that, right?

              So then lets take a look at "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview - released on March 20th"

              acid2-take2.png

              [InnerVoice: Apparently I spoke too soon.]

              OuterVoice: Well, the difference is obvious to me...

              Any questions?

              [InnerVoice: Actually, I personally have several, but at this stage I am in fear of the answer(s) so I'm just going to pretend this all makes sense, and cry myself to sleep a bit later to make up for it. :D]

              OuterVoice: Does anybody have a Valium I can borrow?

            • Posted by m.david : March 21, 2006 07:23 PM GMT

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