Microsoft Listened, IE8 Will Be A Step Forward
I wrote (complained) earlier about Microsoft’s decision to make websites render like IE7 by defualt. I thought this was huge mistake and was more than a little peeved about it. I definitely wasn’t alone in thinking Microsoft was making a mistake as there was a huge uproar in the blogosphere about it. Well the sky has fallen, pigs are flying, The IE development team has listened to the developers!
Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here).
