Star The Real Reason Microsoft About-Faced on IE8 Standards Opt-In
Linked by Kroc on Wed 5th Mar 2008 19:02 UTC
Internet Explorer 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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RE[3]: enterprise web-apps
by snozzberry on Wed 5th Mar 2008 21:45 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: enterprise web-apps"
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Evidenced by it passing the ACID2 test which in itself requires extensive CSS support

More importantly, it requires extensive HTML support. Parts of ACID2 are graphics rendered inline from hex data, something no Microsoft browser has ever (to my knowledge) supported.

Remember that ACID is a measure of error handling as well as feature support. Those of you who remember when Netscape and IE didn't render tables identically can get a better idea of what ACID's reaching for.

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