Three Cheers for IE8 and Microsoft
Woah nelly, hell has just dropped below zero (or 32F)!
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx
This is fantastic news and a brilliant example that Microsoft does listen when something makes sense. That’s right: it seems IE8’s default behaviour will now be IE8 (ACID2 compliant) standards mode, with IE 7 Standards (read IE6 interoperable) mode being switchable.
In one policy decision, in one line of code probably — Microsoft is effectively ‘fixing the web’ to borrow some of their parlance.
This is a fantastic bit of news and may even make me consider IE 8 as my main browser if its good enough on my Windows XP box/partition.
As a veteran web developer now, I am so happy. Microsoft deserves kudos for this; even though they should have been consistent with standards from day one. But I won’t hold a grudge, even when half of my working week is spent with my mind taunted with Internet Explorer 6 compatibility.
