IE8 lose from Firefox?

IE8 has been released officially on (19/3) set. Before launch, some people say the problem was the drop in pre-release version of its (after testing the system in Windows XP and Vista platforms).

Software IE8 has not been fully successful, as tested with the Acid 3 test standard for compatibility. That is done to ensure that IE8 can work better with technology CSS, HTML4 and XHTML. But unfortunately, after the test was to obtain a score that IE8 less, ie, 20 of 100 when compared with the new browser Google Chrome (79 of 100 value) and Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta (value of 93 from 100), as quoted from the Channel Web.

Acid Test 3 above may not affect any of the user, but may become ganjalan for the developer. Developer will build to the standard on the job to make sure that they can run on many different browsers and different operating systems.

However, IE8 also has good news. For memory consumption issues, IE8 can still compete with other browsers. IE8 browser consume 60 MB of memory when opening the two-site, while for Google Chrome only 49 MB, the latest Firefox and only use 56 MB (for the same site). Other IE8 features, such as the "Compatibility Mode", "Web slices" also features additional security dikalim have been able to work well on the final version.