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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. Re:Oh great by duguk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As I mentioned above - why does the IE8 compatibility model (which renders much like IE7) completely ignore the IE7 specific markup?

    Is it not meant to render like IE7? What kinda compatibility is it for? We web developers need IE-specific markup (e.g. "&lt!-- if ie") for fixing IE8, and probably again for IE8's compatibility mode.

    I am not impressed.