They listened (mostly)! Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. Internet Explorer will retain the version 7 rendering engine. But rather than opt-in to version 8 rendering, developers will have to opt-out of it. Developers and / or server administrators can [...]
[3 Mar 2008]
For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I [...]
[25 Jan 2008]
My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for [...]
[22 Jan 2008]
Or as Molly put it: Yes Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Smiley. From the IEBlog: … I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of [...]
[19 Dec 2007]