Star 'New IE8 Beta 1 Tantalizes, Rough Edges and All'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Mar 2008 21:15 UTC
Internet Explorer Ars takes a closer look at the Internet Explorer 8 beta (released yesterday), and concludes. "Niggles aside, IE8 is shaping up quite well. Clearly, a lot of work has been done on standards compliance, and it looks like it's paying off. If IE8's development continues down the path it's on, it will finally be a version of Internet Explorer fit for the 21st century."
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Liquidator
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2007-03-04

If my web site is standard-compliant (validates on the W3C web site), and renders different in two different "standard-compliant" browsers, there's something wrong somewhere.

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DrillSgt Member since:
2005-12-02

"If my web site is standard-compliant (validates on the W3C web site), and renders different in two different "standard-compliant" browsers, there's something wrong somewhere."

Agreed. I probably haven't thrown enough at it yet ;)

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dagw Member since:
2005-07-06

If my web site is standard-compliant (validates on the W3C web site), and renders different in two different "standard-compliant" browsers, there's something wrong somewhere.


"Standard complaint" is used in a very vauge sense most of time. I doubt we'll ever see a fully standard compliant browser again. The standards are just too big and too many.

Most of the time standard complaint simply means complaint with a reasonably large subset of the necessary standards.

Also there is always room for some interpretation and leway in most standards. The standard doesn't give exact details about how every pixle should be rendered in every situation. So as such it is perfectly possible and valid for two browsers who both are 100% complaint to the letter of exactlty them spec to render the same page in two slightly different ways.

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