Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jun 2008 22:40 UTC
"Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same non-compliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default. The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been clamouring for standards compliance for a long time; IE is a long way behind the competition, requiring considerable hacks and workarounds to get pages working properly. IE8 should make things a lot better - but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still leaving web developers in the dark."
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2005-07-06
The point being made here is that someone shouldn't need to write any code to make their sites compatible with IE8 because it should have been done right in IE from day one.
Thanks for admitting that IE has been a clusterf*** for compatibility from the very first minute.
I love the way security problems are categorised in the Windows world ;-).
Has it? Hmmmm.
The answer is no because it actually works properly, and doesn't make life difficult for web developers because they want to write code that locks you into their browser.
I don't think you understand what proprietary means. Have you not picked up anything since you've been around here? You can't just pull the term 'web standards' off an MSDN blog and start shouting it from the rooftops.