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The news spread on the specialized media: finally, almost two years later than the first browser doing it (which wasn't either iCab, Safari or Konqueror but Opera), Internet Explorer 8 will pass Acid 2 test. The title of the only proof offered by Microsoft (since the browser is not yet available) is conclusive: «Acid 2 test pass complete». The corresponding post on IEBlog doesn't either left any doubt: «IE8 now renders the "Acid2 Face" correctly».

As soon as I knew about Safari for Windows I knew what I wanted to do: after being able to run Internet Explorer on Linux it's time to do the same with Safari.
It's not easy, but when you know what you have to do it isn't difficult. And if you see how it works on Windows:

you can't expect great things with Wine either

These are the steps needed to be able to run Safari on Linux using Wine.

I know I've already criticized Internet Explorer because of its distinctive way to interpret standards. But then I found the bug-of-the-day issue which means that Internet Explorer will give you an unexpected behavior failing where other browsers get success, so you must waste even hours or sometimes days to guess that what's going wrong this time with Microsoft's most (in)famous product may be:

• If a JavaScript function modifies the src attribute in a <img> tag, but it doesn't do it at the end of the function, the loading of the image may be canceled.
• An <IMG> tag with id and name but without src (common case of an image that will be manipulated through JavaScript) causes to loss session variables unexpectedly.
• If you change a <div> visibility style from hidden to visible, sometimes this change is not applied to the child objects which should inherit this property.
• IE doesn't support position: fixed;.
• PNGs using an alpha channel for transparency show black background instead of transparency in IE.
• If you create an object with document.createElement() and then append it to content with appendChild() it won't be initialized, you should use innerHTML property or insertBefore() or similar.
• onmouseover event doesn't work over transparent backgrounds.

These are the most recent that I can't remember now, but any web developer can surely apport much more. Many of these bugs have been solved in Internet Explorer 7, but 5.5 and 6.0 are still the most used.

Those are the results of running the Acid2 test against the most popular browsers.

The results are eloquent, but just in case, I'm going to clarify it: it should be a yellow smiley face over a white background that when you pass the mouse over or near the nose, it becomes blue.