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Site Compatibility and IE8

Posted by Soulskill on from the same-but-different dept.

Kelson writes "As the release of Internet Explorer 8 approaches, Microsoft's IE Team has published a list of differences between IE7 and IE8, and how to fix code so that it will work on both. Most of the page focuses on IE8 Standards mode, but it also turns out that IE7 compatibility mode isn't quite the same as IE7 itself."

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  1. Target a standard by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    HTML as a standard has been so bastardized over the years that the kind of incompatibilities that the article discusses exist not only across different browsers but also between browser versions.

    Maybe it's time to start over. Flash and Java applets seem like a good place to start.

    1. Re:Target a standard by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

      I haven't ever seen a fast Java applet

      This is a temporary problem. As computers get faster, this problem will go away.

  2. Re:IE8 Standards mode?? by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about following the standards the rest of the world uses instead?

    Habits are hard to break ;)

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