IE8, Acid2 and existing site compatibility
Lots of buzz around the fact that the IE team has built a build which passes the Acid2 test. Congratulations to the IE team!
There’s a great interview video over on the Visitmix web site. It’s a discussion with Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager on the IE team and Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the IE Platform team.
We had Chris down to keynote Web Directions South this year. Chris’ keynote was very insightful as he went into what it means to shift IE into a more standards compliant browser and the challenges associated with that.
This video explores that same topic in good depth. In essence, the IE team just can’t have IE render differently and “break” millions of existing sites. Yes, rendering to standards is important and it’s happening with great success in IE 8. But they have to ensure that existing sites, as non-compliant as they may be, can’t break or render differently.
Watch the video and listen to Chris and Dean’s take on it, fascinating.
-dg
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