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Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-head-just-asplodered dept.

nickull writes "Microsoft is tracking incompatible Web sites for its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser and has posted a list that now contains about 2,400 names — including Microsoft.com. Apparently, even though Microsoft's IE8 team is doing the 'right' thing by finally making IE more standards-compliant, they are risking 'breaking the Web' because the vast majority of Web sites are still written to work correctly with previous, non-standards-compliant versions of IE."

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  1. Breaking IE-specific sites is a GOOD thing by kbrasee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The worst thing on the internet is a site that only works in IE. I just ran across one the other day that displayed nothing but a blank screen in Firefox and Chrome. There are many more that have crazy formatting issues in anything but IE. So, this is a good way to force these sites to update from their 1997 crapfest to the standardized modern web.

  2. Re:Options by should_be_linear · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or, perhaps, fixing those pages comes to mind...

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  3. Re:Rock and a Hard Place by Joce640k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One of the two will make them unpopular in the long term.

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  4. Thank you, Microsoft! by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Microsoft had two choices:
    1. Continue rendering sites in the same broken way as previous versions of IE, making life a real pain for web developers.
    2. Render sites properly, making things better in the long run, but taking a public relations hit in the process.

    Amazingly, they chose the second option. Those of us who understand why this is important should be applauding right now.