It appears that an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid 2 test in standards mode. Barring future regressions, this should put IE 8 in the club of Acid 2-compliant browsers and make life easier for web developers. So far, Internet Explorer's very large market share and relatively poor support for Web standards have caused problems in developing sites that work in all browsers, hindering general progress of the Web. In fact, Opera recently filed a complaint with the EU regarding this issue. Some speculate that the improvement in standards compliance, like addition of tabbed browsing and eventual removal of WGA requirement for IE 7, is a reaction to increasing competition from alternative browsers. However, regardless of the reason, the improvement is a very good thing.
In another news, the Beta 2 version of Firefox 3 is out, with numerous improvements under the hood, including plugging of more than 300 memory leaks. The linked ZDNet review also mentioned Beta 2's improved responsiveness and general performance. As someone who uses Firefox almost all the time, I find this very encouraging. Hopefully the team manage to improve the responsiveness and memory footprint in the final version even further. After all, Firefox was originally created as a branch of Mozilla browser when the latter was perceived to be too bloated :)
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