Microsoft IE8 is finally here, popular opinion is that it will find its users only amongst the existing IE users. IE8 is not trying to appeal to users of its competitors. However, I sincerely hope that it at least appeals to IE6 users enough to make it extinct soon. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsBeing Compatible With IE8’s Compatibility View
IE8 is almost like two different browsers – one in the backward compatibility mode, and the other in standards compatibility mode. The unfortunate part is the IE8 using the compatibility view is not the same as its predecessor IE7. There is a good news that IE8 is CSS 2.1 compliant and that it does offer a standards mode. [Continue]
IE8 To Have Compatibility View To Beat The Standards
Microsoft seems to be hell bent on making the standards secondary in the name of compatibility. Not a while back, Microsoft had agreed to use the standards mode by default for IE8 after many had opposed the degradation. If enough users vote a site into IE7 compatibility mode, it will be displayed using that, even if it was built using the standards. [Continue]
IE8 To Default To Standards Mode
A good news from Microsoft for the standards world. There was a rebel from the developers community when IE8 announced that the default mode would not be standards mode, unless it was told to do so through a special tag. Microsoft has paid heed to the developer community and reversed this behavior. [Continue]
IE8 Meta Declaration Not Required For HTML5
In the whole backlash of the IE8 announcement, an important piece of information got overshadowed. If you use HTML5, you can skip the effort for version targeting. So, use HTML5 and then you can forget about coding for browsers. [Continue]
IE8 Meta Tag, Getting Worse Through Standards
When a popular tool deviates from the standards, a lot of development using it deviates too. And that is what happened with IE 6, and a lot of sites developed to work around its deviations. So much so that, the deviations from the standards were very close to becoming the new standards themselves. [Continue]
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