There was an awful lot of news yesterday about Internet Explorer - some of it good, some bad. Let's go for the bad first so we can end on a good note. The bad news is that people using IE and regularly update with security patches as and when they're released may notice some problems browsing pages. Yes, IE is now broken badly. The people at Opera are going to love that.
About 60% of the time, I would get an 'Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and must close' dialog
After you install security update 942615 on a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 may crash when you try to visit a Web site.
This isn't the only problem, it also now has problem making connections to sites making it pretty unusable.
Now for some positive news, Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid2 Test in "Standards mode" which shows a very promising step forwards towards standards compliance. As the IE team point out on their blog, the passing of Acid2 shows how well several different standards have been implemented. Now let this sink in, IE will be very very standards compliant, and their team must have been working on it for a while so it can't be because of the latest quarry with Opera. On a quick side-note, this could mean that with IE8 scheduled for a Beta early 2008 that the Opera case in the EU may be dismissed on the basis that Microsoft have already made a step in improving the usage of internet standards in their browser.
Link: Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 reaches the Acid2 Test Milestone!
