A change of heart from the IE8 development team

It seems the IE8 development team have been listening to the community, which is great news:

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.

Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8

Date: 4 March 2008
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: News, Web, Web standards
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Comments so far

  1. Amit says:
    March 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    Non compliance sure has its own price.

  2. Nathan says:
    March 4, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    Its about time they got the message, this is a good move for them and if they keep it up I think most standards aware developers will eventually come to respect them.

    That’s an interesting article there Amit, maybe the voice of the developers wasn’t as loud as the EU, but I hope it had something to do with the backflip.

  3. Jermayn Parker says:
    March 6, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Good to see that the standardists have some power!

  4. Russ says:
    March 6, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    100 million angry developer voices could not be ignored ? :)

  5. Wolle says:
    March 12, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Also the IE must get accustomed once to the standards. Otherwise FF or Opera.

  6. Dani says:
    March 24, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    But I will further use the Firefox and only for test purposes the IE.