Posts tagged: microsoft
- Microsoft changes course on IE 8
- 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]
- IE8 will pass the ACID test
- 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 several [...] [19 Dec 2007]
- Microsoft licenses patent from Eolas
- With any luck you will soon be able to chuck SWFObject* and go back using embed and object to include Flash movies in your documents. Microsoft has licensed the patent it was found liable of infringing upon. This means that Internet Explorer will soon handle ActiveX content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) the way it did before [...] [11 Dec 2007]
