"IE8 scores 20/100, which is still much worse than all relevant competitors in their versions from the test's release, and has some problems with rendering the

"IE8 scores 20/100, which is still much worse than all relevant competitors in their versions from the test's release, and has some problems with rendering the Acid3 test page." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3 So you're "IE9 is beta" argument doesn't hold, IE8 doesn't beat a browser that predates Acid3, either.