It’s coming from official sources that IE8 passes the Acid2 standards test. I’ve seen people blog about this today, and the reaction is mostly positive although for some it’s perhaps hard to believe? IE7 was not really much of a new version over IE6. IE6 is still being used more than IE7, so IE8 might be five years from now? But a good time in the right direction, Microsoft.

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the development (or lack of) web standards, but not going to create multiple posts about it (yet). Best summary of everything so far is the “Future of Web Standards” article at b-list.org. Also “Reigniting the Browser Wars” and The W3C Cannot Save Us are excellent reads.