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Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes

Posted by kdawson on from the no-i'm-an-expert-really-i-am dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What's so hard about browser standards? by Sancho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right. The code for Internet Explorer is heavily shared around in other Microsoft software. If they included GPL code, they'd be legally required to open most of Windows under the GPL.

    And don't say "Shh, what do you think I was trying to get them to do!?" They have expensive lawyers. They wouldn't make that kind of mistake.

  2. "PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista" by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do you realize that the comment to which you linked is in a story about another huge Microsoft abuse titled, "PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista"?

    That was not a very effective way to argue that Microsoft is not abusive.