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

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
Thu Mar 19 17:20:46 GMT 2009


Quoting David Precious <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>:

> 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.

Seems like making the thing standards compliant by default would be  
too difficult.

/me wonders if this is because any pages/sites developed in  
VSS.net/Frontpage/MSWord/otherMSSoftware would immediately break in IE  
and therefore show up IE6&7 for what they were...

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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