It has been announced at Mary Jo Foley’s "All About Microsft" blog (ZDNET) and at the IE Blog itself at MSDN that the up and coming Internet Explorer 8.0 will adhere to the current web standards by default. Something the developers and the more technically inclined users have been clamoring for, well, just about forever as far as the WWW and the browsers that surf it are concerned. Even so, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that users will still complain about it. For myself, this is one of "those things" I’ve been waiting to happen. Too bad it took about 5 years longer than it should have.
I shall now stand on my head in a deep dish cheese pizza while playing "Hail to Odin" on a tin whistle while also wearing purple spandex shorts with yellow polka dots.
I’ll also believe it when I see it.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Gotta love it when the giant conglomerate listens to those who will actually have to develop for the browser.
Now if only IE6 could disappear off the face of the Earth
March 5th, 2008 at 11:42 am
We’re working on it.
Seems like the sure cure for that one is to just have website developers from now on (ie: after 8.0 is released) only code to standards and forget trying to adjust for IE. Of course that means IE 8.0 will have to be made available for both XP and Vista which I’m hoping is the case. Still, it it appears that if MS actually follows through with this, the rest of “standards” conundrum is left up to the developers themselves to code only to standards. Or am I missing something here?
March 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I want to hear a rousing round of “Hail to Odin.”
Of course, coding only to standards now won’t help the millions of websites that are already out there.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Odin, Odin, old and wise,
Pull your strings and thus our lives
You my an-ces-tors despised.
I hope your pet ca-nar-ry dies!
(no one ever really liked Odin much)
Oh, and you’re right about those millions of existing websites but if you think about it, they only have to be fixed once. And now you won’t have up to 10x as much work when writing new website pages and then having to adjust each one for Internet Explorer. Just think, code a page once to web standards…that’s it. That will help get rid of ol’ IE 6.0 for sure.