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Internet Explorer 8: This is progress?

By Dougal | Published: January 23, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test. Huzzah!

But waitaminnit… What’s this stuff about forward compatibility by adding some new X-UA-Compatible header to my pages or my server? Am I reading this right? Are you telling me that in order for IE8 to use its fully compliant rendering, we have to add something new to our pages? And that if we don’t, it will fall back to rendering pages just like IE7? Is that what this means?

That’s just dumb.

Screw their stupid “don’t break the web” motto. [...]

Posted in Browsers, CSS, Community, Design, Development, Standards, Tech, Web Design | Also tagged Browsers, CSS, forwardcompatibility, futureproof, ie7, InternetExplorer, Microsoft, pleasesirmayihaveanother, Standards, Stupid, wasp, webstandards | 16 Comments

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