Comments on: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 to Speed Up Web Development? http://www.onenaught.com/posts/46/microsofts-internet-explorer-8-to-speed-up-web-development A blog on web standards, accessibility, css, javascript, xslt, and more Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anup Shah http://www.onenaught.com/posts/46/microsofts-internet-explorer-8-to-speed-up-web-development#comment-1543 Anup Shah Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:44:24 +0000 http://www.onenaught.com/posts/46/microsofts-internet-explorer-8-to-speed-up-web-development#comment-1543 Good point Mike. Will be interesting to see how this turns out... Lets hope my optimism isn't too premature :) Good point Mike. Will be interesting to see how this turns out… Lets hope my optimism isn’t too premature :)

]]> By: Mike R http://www.onenaught.com/posts/46/microsofts-internet-explorer-8-to-speed-up-web-development#comment-1542 Mike R Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:24:17 +0000 http://www.onenaught.com/posts/46/microsofts-internet-explorer-8-to-speed-up-web-development#comment-1542 Whilst this is, of course, exciting news one has to view through a historic filter - I'm not warning you of following cynicism but more that IE8 is not a completely stand alone, new product. Since IE6 M$ has started paying more than lip service to sites that have been developed specifically for previous IE versions, generally thought of as a bad thing but just as generally done, and statements in the news items and IE blog don't contradict this. SO - can IE8 final release maintain ACID2 compliance and still have this IE backwards compatability? Quirks Mode II, The Next Generation anyone? Whilst this is, of course, exciting news one has to view through a historic filter - I’m not warning you of following cynicism but more that IE8 is not a completely stand alone, new product.

Since IE6 M$ has started paying more than lip service to sites that have been developed specifically for previous IE versions, generally thought of as a bad thing but just as generally done, and statements in the news items and IE blog don’t contradict this.

SO - can IE8 final release maintain ACID2 compliance and still have this IE backwards compatability?

Quirks Mode II, The Next Generation anyone?

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