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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. Re:IE8 Standards mode?? by BasharTeg · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://webkit.org/projects/css/index.html

    So let me understand this...

    WebKit isn't yet CSS 1 compliant.

    WebKit isn't yet CSS 2.1 compliant, and does not currently pass the CSS 2.1 suite.

    WebKit isn't yet CSS 3 compliant, but CSS 3 isn't a finished standard yet anyway. ( http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work )

    IE 8 is coming out with full CSS 2.1 compliance that passes the CSS 2.1 test suite entirely.

    CSS 2.1 is the newest *completed* CSS standard level.

    But according to the Intarnets, Microsoft should replace their IE Trident engine with WebKit.

    Which would reduce their CSS standards support...

    I'm confused.