Linked by Kroc on Wed 5th Mar 2008 19:02 UTC
Microsoft decided that due to their new interoperability initiative, they would reverse a previous decision to make IE8 default to the IE7 engine, instead of supporting standards-compliance by default. No article or musing I have yet read has delved into what is increasingly likely, the reason for this sudden change in decision -- and that is this: the mobile web is coming.
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But a week ago, they could have; IE8 would have defaulted to IE7, and lo- little to no changes would have to be made.
Microsoft just took a hammer to that whole idea. Don't downplay that this is a major statement. In OS equivalence it would be like announcing that Windows 7 would drop almost all backwards compatibility in the name of improvements.