IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default

A number of readers wrote in to make sure we know about Microsoft's change of heart regarding IE8. The new version of the dominant browser will render in full standards mode by default. Developers wishing to use quirks mode for IE6- and IE7-compatible rendering will have to opt in explicitly. We've previously discussed IE8's render mode a few times. Perhaps Opera's complaint to the EU or the EU's record antitrust fine had something to do with Redmond's about-face.

Comments

Re:Hmmmm

[bunratty]

Hmmmmm... Firefox looks like it uses less memory than other browsers to me. How would we see this "memory whore" thing you're talking about? Can you give me a site to go to that causes Firefox to use much more memory than another browser?

Re:Huge assumption in the title

[megaditto]

E8 may be in standards-compliant MODE by default, but whether it's *standards-compliant* has yet to be proven You are a pessimist, or a cynic.

Let me inject a little optimism into this thread by saying that IE8 can indeed be standards-complaint because it will be the standard.

Re:Or perhaps...

[ILuvRamen]

at my old work, because of their intranet pages, they haven't gone to IE7 yet lol. It looked like a basic html page to me so I dunno what the problem was. I think the IT staff is a bunch of morons and before you're like "nah ah!" they're all getting fired in March. That's right, all of them. They're ACS people and they're gone. They're bringing in IBM people to replace them. Lol anyway, yeah I didn't really buy that scared of the EU crap. What does the EU care about IE following standards? Anything to make IE worse should delight them cuz it'll help break up the semi-monopoly.