Re: FN-FORUM: CSS tutorials

date posted 12th March 2008 12:49

Both of those policies were reversed just before the release of IE8
beta. Standards mode is, erm, standard and the default engine is IE8.
The beta version has an IE7 "switch" for developers, but I'm not sure
it's staying.


Phillip Healey wrote:
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>> On 12 Mar 2008, at 13:26, Hal MacLean wrote:
>> but still no single standard for rendering pages to all web browsers.
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>> I'd argue that the standards are set, but the browsers ignore them
>> (Well IE does...)
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> I read that IE8 will be 'allegedly' as good as FF is now, however you have
> to set-it to this mode. The default is IE7 mode (seems a bit pointless), and
> if i remember correctly you have to put some code in the webpage to tell IE8
> to work in this compliant format. Although i may be wrong on the last bit as
> im sure it could just read the HTML definitions any way?
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