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Microsoft changes stance on version targeting default behavior Microsoft changes stance on version targeting default behavior

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> "We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can." So there you have it. This should make a lot of standards-oriented developers happy, as it makes out jobs easier. I *think* this is the right move by Microsoft, although I never could quite figure out very firmly where I stood on the whole topic. At the very least, it prove MS is listening to the developers, and that can only be a good thing.

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3586_32 Web Developers and Web Designers Blogs IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
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March 11, 2008

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interope...

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We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interopera...

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March 4, 2008

We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interopera...

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We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously. Why Change? Microsoft recently published a set of Interope...

3586_32 CSS Design IE8 to Behave Like IE8
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March 3, 2008

After all that brouhaha over IE8's proposed behavior of rendering pages as IE7 by default unless a version meta tag was present, the IEBlog announces today that IE8 will instead render pages in the most standards-compliant way it ...