Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Dec 2007 21:48 UTC, submitted by RJop
"As a team, we've spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. Internet Explorer 8 now renders the 'Acid2 Face' correctly in IE8 standards mode." Insert freezing and hell joke.
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Actually, my guess is that "standards mode" simply refers to the "usual" mode for rendering web sites which have a correct DOCTYPE declaration etc... (as opposed to the so-called 'quirks' mode, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode )
This strategy of having two modes is pretty common, not just with IE but also with other browsers.
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danB
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Yep. Firefox 2.0 has three modes even: standard, semi-standard (had a doctype but quirked) and quirks.
I know this because I found a site that rendered fine for me, but the other guy claimed it was broken in Firefox. It was ... in Firefox 1.5, because 1.5 really enforced the claimed doctype.
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I assume [hope] it's a default mode for all sites to render correctly. Then for any site which relies on old broken IE behavior, THOSE specific sites are rendered in "compatibility" mode.