Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes

Dak RIT writes "In a blog post this week, Microsoft's IE Platform Architect, Chris Wilson, confirmed that IE8 will use three distinct modes to render web pages. The first two modes will render pages the same as IE7, depending on whether or not a DOCTYPE is provided ('Quirks Mode' and 'Standards Mode'). However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, Web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test, as was discussed here."

Comments

Re:Just Like Before

[RightSaidFred99]

Fortunately nobody cares what you want. You aren't one of the thousands of businesses who would be affected because "Joe Asshole" wants to be standards compliant, come what may to everyone else! See, in the real world money, time, and effort is far more important than ridiculous ideals of "standards" (really just your competitors ganging up and defining stuff to screw you over).

The facts have been the same for years.

[Futurepower(R)]

I haven't repeated myself nearly as much as Microsoft has developed and pursued abusive policies.