Archive for the 'Browsers' Category

Microsoft has seen the light on IE8

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.
This is truly great news, for several reasons. One is that Microsoft is now arguing for greater openness. That can only help the marketplace. [...]

Two wrongs don’t make a right: Microsoft needs to fix themselves

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 [...]

Ready or not, here I(E7) come(s)

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!

Is Microsoft scre***g the web community again?

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.