Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes 525
Dak RIT writes "In a blog post this week, Microsoft's IE Platform Architect, Chris Wilson, confirmed that IE8 will use three distinct modes to render web pages. The first two modes will render pages the same as IE7, depending on whether or not a DOCTYPE is provided ('Quirks Mode' and 'Standards Mode'). However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, Web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test, as was discussed here."
The web was invented in 1989 (Score:5, Funny)
My Suggested Meta Tag (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Forcing? Look on the bright side. (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, I get it when I'm using iceweasel.
as long as they don't touch my <blink> tag (Score:5, Funny)
<blink>i heart you</blink> blink tag, no one loves you like i do
In summary (Score:5, Funny)
I like to think of the different modes as:
Re:How could it have passed Acid2? (Score:2, Funny)
Then it works perfectly, it's all explained in the name of the test ;)
That META tag is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My Suggested Meta Tag (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wait a second? (Score:5, Funny)
So can super high-traffic sites measure the amount of bandwidth they have to pay to use to send out this unnecessary tag to millions of people and bill MS for it? Oh, I forgot, their EULA says they're not responsible for their products.
Re:let me see if I get this ... (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed. You have achieved Microsoft Zen(tm).
Would you like to verify that your MS Zen product license is genuine?
Re:How could it have passed Acid2? (Score:2, Funny)
render_proper_acid_2();
else
render_page( page_contents );
Re:Not seeing the logic here... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Wait a second? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:OOXMLish (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The web was invented in 1989 (Score:3, Funny)
oh hell! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:People think Microsoft is a software company. (Score:3, Funny)