Change of Heart - IE8 Standards Mode Will Support Standards
In a change of mind from what they previously had decided, the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft has announced that IE8 will “by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.” If you haven’t seen, a quick view of the comments about their previous decision and their latest announcement should give you a good idea of what everyone thinks of it.
I don’t generally post comments, but their initial decision to turn web standards off by default sparked even me to give my thoughts (twice actually, I had forgotten I replied the first time). As a web developer, this decision really helps in so many ways; the biggest being that we won’t be stuck with old, broken rendering engines in web browsers that we have to program around… and neither will anyone else! We get to move forward and use the latest and greatest, and so does everyone else.
I remember being very excited about IE7, and moving a step forward after years of working around IE6; but then being disappointed once again at the poor standards support. But IE8 even passes to Acid2 test. Things are looking good!
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With almost a 3 year hiatus on development, MS has fallen behind the FOSS offerings in everything but user base.
No matter what happens, we’ll be prototyping sites for IE6 for years to come.