In one of my periods of lunacy that I enter into from time to time, I decided to try out the ancient relic known only as “Phoenix”.  Or, really-really-old-Firefox, if you prefer.  Sampling both 0.1 and 0.3, I was impressed, actually; all of the sites I visited had more or less perfect rendering, with only a few trivial sizing glitches (Although more technologically advanced sites such as GMail and Google Pages either didn’t work or loaded a more basic view). However, I did make one interesting observation: Phoenix 0.3 had somewhat better Acid2 compliance than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. That’s right: a 2002 early development release of Firefox still had better standards support in some areas than the latest and greatest from our pals at Redmond.

Take a gander, and ponder this facinating tidbit.  Its actual relevance is questionable as certainly more sites will work with IE7, and additionally Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is known to more or less pass Acid2, but it’s interesting to me nevertheless.