Nater Kate nailed it in Molly’s post about the news:
i just got goosebumps
And so did I. Honestly. It’s always great to hear good things about Internet Explorer. It’s so rare that I think it’s also worth mentioning that the announcement at IE’s official blog actually generates positive comments from people. All in all, congratulations to the IE team. Not only IE8 gave us a hope once again, it’s also very possible that a two point difference in version will render IE6 obsolete.
For the unitiated, Wikipedia has a good explanation on Acid2 Test. Firefox 2 fails Acid2 test, but version 3 will support it correctly. The current Firefox 3 beta 2 does fail the test, but it seems to be a failure on Acid2’s side, not Firefox. See this for more information.
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