when Ritsuko times out

Firefox 3.0 doesn’t pass the Acid3 test, with a score of 71/100, according to this story. In what should come as no surprise whatsoever, Internet Exploder 8 also fails Acid3 – with a score of 21/100.

That wouldn’t be too bad, too, if some jackass hadn’t come up with this quote:

“The concern Microsoft has is that if we burnt [draft standards] into Internet Explorer 8 and passed Acid3 with 120 percent and then deploy it on so many machines, especially in the enterprise, [we have made draft standards de-facto standards] when the W3C will then want to innovate on the [evolving] standards,” Nick Hodge, a Professional Geek for Microsoft Australia said.

If I were Microsoft, and jacked off to child porn all day long, I’d end each day with the satisfaction that a significant amount of people around to earth would follow my cue and try to get their cocks hard and trembling over a luscious little pearl-skinned 9 year old Russian. If I were Microsoft, I’d love to remind everybody that even though IE6 sucked, we’re still number one (hey, remember IE6! More people still use IE6 than IE7, folks! We’re still so fucking number one – oh, Internet Exploder 8 just came out, we’re so proud, everybody download it!). If I were Microsoft, I would, without any proof whatsoever, set up a site that petitioned the W3C to include all Internet Exploder hacks into the new whatever standard that comes out – hey, every design has a few IE hacks in it, might as well make it a standard, right?

And that, folks, is why Internet Exploder 8 should also be doomed to walk the plank off my ship of web development.