So instead of standards-compliant websites needing to include an extra <meta> tag to tell IE 8 to render in standards mode, they now need to include an extra <meta> tag to tell IE 8 not to show a "please break my website" button in the chrome.
Fantastic.
Posted by gerv at September 2, 2008 9:56 AM | TrackBackI love this part:
"But wait, a lot of people say at this point, why isn’t this a problem for Firefox, or Safari, or any other browser? The answer is that developers of many sites had worked around many of the shortcomings or outright errors in IE6, and now expected IE7 to work just like IE6. Web developers expected us, for example, to maintain our model for how content overflows its box, even in “standards mode,” even though it didn’t follow the specification – because they’d already made their content work with our model."
Sigh. (As for the quote from the aforementioned comment, if they actually fixed all the bugs, that should not be a problem. As conditional comments for instance would simply no longer work.)
Posted by: Anne van Kesteren at September 2, 2008 12:05 PMs/aforementioned comment/comment above/
Posted by: Anne van Kesteren at September 2, 2008 12:07 PM[about the second link]
It's nice to present that with a capture of ie8 showing msdn page and the compatibility bubble..
Hey, Gerv, do you plan to comment on the new Google browser at all? I'm curious to know your opinion of how that will affect Mozilla in future.
Posted by: Individ-ewe-al at September 4, 2008 1:43 PMIndivid-ewe-al: A lot of people in the Mozilla community have blogged about it already; I don't really have anything to add. (I know that doesn't stop a lot of bloggers :-), but it stops me.) Basically: more competition is good; it's a load of smart people; they've got a lot of work ahead of them to deliver on their promises; extensions rock and it's not obvious how they can have them. :-)
Posted by: Gerv at September 4, 2008 4:33 PM