Internet Explorer General Manager , Dean Hachamovitch, has announced that Internet Explorer 8 passes Acid2 Test in Standard Mode . This is a great new for web designers and developers, because means full support to html and CSS 2.0 standards. So, congratulations!!!

In the same post, Dean promises telling us more at MIX08 and releasing a beta along the first half of 2008.

Acid2 Test is a test designed by Web Standards Project to check standards support in browsers. When a browser passes it, shows an smiley and the legend ‘Hello world!'.

If IE8 works as well as said at the post, would we great recovering it as render engine in Outlook instead of current Word's engine and take a step more to html standard in e-mail.