Opera’s CTO has a challenge for Microsoft. He wants to create a new version of the Acid test to ensure that when IE7 is released it lives up to Microsoft’s hype, and does the Web a favour in the process

Opera lays down Acid2 challenge

IE is broken. Has been for years. It doesn’t support half of the features it claims to, and others are seriously broken.

Microsoft have committed themselves to resolving these issues, and working towards interoperability. This sounds familiar, and they have failed to deliver so many times in the past.

So the Web Community is going to help them. Webstandards.org will be hosting the Acid2 Test Suite for CSS 2.1, as soon as it’s completed. This test suite will consist of standards-compliant markup which any browser worth its salt should be able to render correctly.

So the IE developers will know exactly what they need to fix before releasing the long-awaited IE7. What could possibly go wrong…