Microsoft Pushes Devs With Wider IE8 Beta

An anonymous reader recommends a story about the upcoming beta 2 release of Internet Explorer 8. InternetNews expects that the standards-compliant default mode will push many developers to update their sites. We've previously discussed IE8's standards compliance and other features. Quoting: "Over the years of IE's dominance as the leading browser, designers regularly tweaked their sites to get the best possible accuracy in rendering pages in IE -- most recently, the current commercial release, IE7. Now those pages will need to be changed. Microsoft originally planned for IE8 to default to rendering similarly to IE7, while super standards mode would have been an option. The outcry from critics helped convince Microsoft officials to instead default to super standards. That, unfortunately, will mean work for site administrators."

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just one question

[Tastecicles]

which set of standards? Microsofts?

IE standards compliant that is ..

[rs232]

That is of course standards-compliant to the current version of Internet Explorer and not a Browser by any other name .. :)

"Microsoft is .. letting Web site developers signal to IE how standards-compliant it ought to be with their pages"

How about writing web pages to a generic standard, something like W3C

Re:Cue the "M$" bashing shrills

[Anonymous Coward]

I have nil sympathy for anyone that has to recode his site; to standards or otherwise.
If they weren't retards their page would work in IE3 as well as in dillo and Opera 9. Is someone with a gun forcing them to include "new tag of the day" to their HTML code?
Trying to cover up poor skills with magic numbers?
Javascript, ActiveX, Java, Flash, Silverlight, CSS, all to write a page that seems to be coming from 1995 with ugly graphics, unreadable text, strident sounds and crap moving around and no content at all.
If your crap doesn't render in w3m and you are not a bank I won't be caught dead while browsing your site.