Our next update comes from Merlin build 7830, which includes three fixes for problems seen in the Acid2 test. First, we fixed a problem with anonymous table creation. More specifically, if a table existed within an anonymous table row, then the table row was terminated after that table. This partially fixed the problems in row 14 and beyond. Check this test case to see how your browser handles it.
Second, we fixed a problem drawing backgrounds on tables without rows, but with both width and height specified. This change fixed the rest of the problems seen in row 14 and beyond. Check this test case to see how your browser handles it.
Third, we now correctly parse SGML comments in Standards mode. I posted about this previously because at the time we weren't sure we would fix this issue. We decided to give it a go, but we're already seeing problems on several pages. We'll gather additional feedback during alpha and beta releases of Merlin and make a decision whether or not to keep this change before the final release.
Here's the updated rendering with these three fixes:
