First Stop - Internet Explorer 7 (Trident)

Internet Explorer is a pretty old browser, but it seems Microsoft didn't care much about making it compliant with standards. In fact, this lead to a lot of sites being designed to work with IE, but having a lot of problems with other browsers, which have better compatibility with the standards. Well, that's life, and from what I've heard, Internet Exporer 8 won't be perfect either...

Today, we're testing IE 7, as well as some browsers based on it. First, "enjoy" what I got in my Internet Explorer, when loading the Acid2 test!


Acid3 delivered also a pretty bad result, with a score of only 12/100, and a page rendered as you can see below...


After performing these tests for the first time, a few weeks ago, I wondered if it is possible that any browser based on Microsoft's rendering engine could do better, and I wasn't quite surprised to see that everything is exactly the same.


Above, you can see the result I got for Acid3 with Avant. No change, and exactly the same happened with AcooBrowser or Maxthon(see the image below).


These being said and done, prepare for tomorrow, when we'll meet to check out Opera... one down, two to go!