MSIE 7 and MSIE 8 beta 2 wrongly render font: messagebox just like font: message-box, wrongly render font: smallcaption just like font: small-caption and wrongly render font: statusbar just like font: status-bar.

This sentence has the style info font: message-box;

This sentence has the style info font: messagebox; and so it should be ignored and Times new Roman and big size (150%) should be used for this very sentence.

This sentence has the style info font: small-caption;

This sentence has the style info font: smallcaption; and so it should be ignored and Times new Roman and big size (150%) should be used for this very sentence.

This sentence has the style info font: status-bar;

This sentence has the style info font: statusbar; and so it should be ignored and Times new Roman and big size (150%) should be used for this very sentence.

Firefox 2.0.0.4, Opera 9.21, Safari 3.0.2, Konqueror 4.5.1, NS 6.2, NS 7.0, NS 7.2 and many other browsers all pass this test.

This bug has been reported at connect's IE beta feedback as bug 348925.

Update: This bug has been FIXED in Internet Explorer 8 Partner pre-RC1 build 6001.18343 released on December 11th 2008. Otherwise, Internet Explorer 8 Partner pre-RC1 build 6001.18343 PASSES this specific and particular testcase.