Search the Notebook
Popular Entries
- jQuery Context Menu Plugin
- A Beautiful Site Launches Surreal CMS
- jQuery File Tree
- Forcing Paste-as-Plain-Text in TinyMCE
- jQuery MultiSelect
Related Entries
Archives
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
Products & Services
IE8 Ditches Version Targeting
Written by Cory S.N. LaViska on March 5th, 2008
Microsoft gains a lot of praise from the Web development community by discarding the possibility of version targeting in IE8.
There’s been a lot of hype about IE8 and version targeting lately. It seems as though Microsoft upset a lot of people when they said that Web developers would have to “opt-in” to IE8’s standards-compliance mode.
After an overwhelming response from the Web development community, Microsoft announced that “interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible” is a “better choice”. No sooner than two days after the post, there were literally hundreds of comments on the IEBlog praising Microsoft’s decision.
IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch concluded, “long term, we believe this is the right thing for the web.”
Comments
You can be the first person to comment on this article!