Hi malware fighters,
Microsoft also introduced the IE8 Standards Mode
When last month we found that the latest version of IE, IE8 ,could render the ACID2 test correctly, everybody at least for that moment was optimistic about the future of the browser. Then one found out, that Microsft repeatedly said that IE8 would only render the Acid2 test correctly in IE8 Standards Mode.
Further information about this issue was presented in the form of a comment by Chris Wilson, the IE Platform Architect, who announced that considering the problems experienced when changing from IE6 to IE7, Microsoft wanted to use a specific opt-in flag for IE8, the so-called IE8 standards mode: the X-UA-Compatible header. And that mode will look accordingly:
HTML:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
Or in the form of a HTTP Header:
PLAIN TEXT
CODE:
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8
Without this X-UA-Compatible header IE8 will render like IE7 does, so websites that were designed with IE7 in mind will not fail in IE8. New doctype documents, like HTML5 will be rendered in IE8 Standards mode.
Like with everything concerning the IE browser there were various reactions, like the obligatory “this is rather stupid”, as “ït cannot be helped, let it be so” and “I think this was the best decision they could take”,
What do you think here? On the one hand this seems the only way that people will upgrade to a newer version of the browser anyway, on the other hand it poses some extra limitations and we are confronted with an IE specific option to determine the way Internet Explorer will handle “standards”, Mozilla will make the switch to HTML5 gradually as two main developers of the Mozilla browser stood at the cradle of HTLM5, one being David Baron,
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