On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards

[Evertjan.]

"On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards"

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
March 4, 2008, 11:45 AM

Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or
the ones they use? It's been a tough call, and late yesterday, the company
reversed that call.

[..]

Gustafson advises against use of the DOCTYPE attribute; instead, he offers
an alternate attribute, which for the purposes Hachamovitch advises would
be phrased like this: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />


<http://www.betanews.com/article/On_second_thought_IE8
_will_default_t o_full_Web_stan dards/1204648031>




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[Nick Fletcher]

Re: On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards

On Mar 4, 12:25 pm, "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivo. ..@interxnl.net wrote:

"On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards"
>
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews
March 4, 2008, 11:45 AM
>
Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or
the ones they use? It's been a tough call, and late yesterday, the company
reversed that call.
>
[..]
>
Gustafson advises against use of the DOCTYPE attribute; instead, he offers
an alternate attribute, which for the purposes Hachamovitch advises would
be phrased like this: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
>
<http://www.betanews.com/article/On_second_thought_IE8
_will_default_t o_full_Web_stan dards/1204648031>
>
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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Thank goodness. You can also read more about it from the IE developers
here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/