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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Member since:2006-01-12
I agree. I could probaply come up lot better explanations. Firstly IE has to be updated since other Microsoft products like Sharepoint and web development tools require support for Firefox and other web browsers. To make that happen they have to get standards work and the biggest problem is IE. Microsoft is facing more and more situations where there money making products are demanded to work on non-IE enviroment. In this situation it would look bad to have own product(IE) that doesn't work with other your own products.
Other would be Microsoft public talk on been better "teamplayer", in that public image IE is like big ugly mould. iPhone has very little global effect and everything around is more an hype than real business at the moment.
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2008-01-14
with that total Apple fanboyism. In mobile world iPhone is yesterday news. If MS would make any move with iPhone in mind it would be months ago. Also if sites are making special versions for iPhone it means that standards are not working and webmasters are total morons. One page should gradually degrade to fit mobile environment without any special version.
What was major announcement for mobiles in recent days? Nokia "partnership" with MS. If anything was influencing Redmonds decision it was that.