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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."
Patrick Doyle
I mod down every jackass who puts his moderation policy in his sig. Oh, wait a sec....
I get that a lot actually.
Unfortunately, I get it when I'm using iceweasel.
as long as they don't touch my tag, they can do whatever they want
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I like to think of the different modes as:
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Then it works perfectly, it's all explained in the name of the test ;)
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Hey, don't forget that when IE8 comes out, it'll only be 'mostly' compliant, so when IE9 comes out, we'll have to add another tag that says 'really-REALLY complaint, this time we really mean it' meta tag.
:)
So can super high-traffic sites measure the amount of bandwidth they have to pay to use to send out this unnecessary tag to millions of people and bill MS for it? Oh, I forgot, their EULA says they're not responsible for their products.
to be standards compliant, web pages have to incorporate a non-standard tag?
Indeed. You have achieved Microsoft Zen(tm).
Would you like to verify that your MS Zen product license is genuine?
if ( page_contents == ACID2_PAGE )
render_proper_acid_2();
else
render_page( page_contents );
How to enable garbage collection on a system without protected memory: #define malloc() ((void *) rand())
Finally an analogy that doesn't involve a fucking car! That being said, may I and my Sears catalog borrow your shed for 5 minutes?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
oh hell! the meta tag switch to turn on standards compliance is non-compliant!
You lost me when you jumped to slavery. I know we go to great extends to bash M$ but that train of thought just rode off the tracks no matter how many mod points it was given.