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  IE8: Is Microsoft Breaking the Web? 

  http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/ie8-is-microsoft-breaking-the-web-002402.php

  It was about mid-December, just after Opera Software filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft — partly focused on Internet Explorer not following web standards — that Microsoft finally came out and ... publicly announced their support for key web standards in version 8 of their prolific web browser. With the recent release of IE8’ s first Beta the public can now finally find out for themselves just how well they have done that. What is even more interesting — and perhaps a matter of debate — is that they have done it in such a way as to not “Break the Web.” Or in other words, they plan to deliver IE8 with backwards compatibility by introducing a controversial third operating mode. Don’t Break the Web Let’s set the context via a brief history lesson: Internet Explorer 5.5 Back in the days of IE5, there really were few web standards — or at if there were, developers didn’t often pay them much heed. Much of the web content displayed was written in an IE5 non-standard interpretation of of   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  browser, css, html, ie8, internet explorer 8 , interoperability, microsoft, multiple modes, quirks, standards, standards support   [More...] [Less...]