[devtalk] IE8 out today (was: IE7 bug?)

[David Precious]

On 03/19/2009 05:06 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Never mind, IE8 is out today... <sigh />
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7952505.stm
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/ie_8_released/

Shit, that came out today?

Meh.  </care>


> "All sites need do - according to Microsoft at least - is complete the  
> relatively simply task of inserting a tag in their code in order to  
> render pages in IE 8's default standards mode - the new, web-standards  
> compatible version of IE rendering. Sites that don't insert the tag  
> won't render properly, and will be viewed in IE's non-standards  
> "compatible view" mode."

They can get fucked with a very long and thorny branch.