Microsoft has seen the light on IE8
Mar 03 ’08
Woohoo! Today, Microsoft made the right decision about IE8. The default rendering mode will be fully standards compliant. They're not going to punish the people who know what they're doing.
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Two wrongs don't make a right: Microsoft needs to fix themselves
Jan 22 ’08
Yesterday two articles appeared at A List Apart discussing a Microsoft-backed proposal to change how the web works (round-up here). The proposal, on its face, is quite simple. Developers would put a meta tag in their documents (X-UA-Compatible) stating what version of a browser the pages were coded against. The browsers would read the tag, and render the page with legacy behavior, including all of the quirks, of that browser. The goal is to "not break the web" with browser upgrades.
It sounds like a great idea, right? I mean, why should I have to worry that Microsoft released IE7? If I used this tag, and specified IE6, then my page would always render correctly in IE, even if IE was on version 28.
WRONG!!!
Ready or not, here I(E7) come(s)
Aug 23 ’06
Whether or not you're ready for it, IE7 is coming. And it's coming soon. It's coming as an automatic update, although the IE7 blog folks have been a little shy about specifying a date.
This is great news!
Wait a minute. Let's try that again.
This should be great news! Read the rest …
Is Microsoft scre***g the web community again?
Mar 23 ’06
Many of the leading luminaries of modern standards-based web design have been very excited about the upcoming release of IE7; the promise of not having to support yet another crappy browser has been very tempting.
Let's recap what's happened, though. Read the rest …
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