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Great irony that. :)

"Internet Explorer 8 renders content in the most standards-compliant way possible."

So you mean it passes ACID3? Or even ACID2 under all situations?

*pin drop*

Wow, that's quite a list.  Here are a few of the sites on that list:

microsoft.com

windows.com

windowsmarketplace.com

trymicrosoftoffice.com

dell.com

hp.com

acer.com

ibm.com

google.com

Yes, but can Waethorn still get to CreamyHotMen dot com?

I think it's backwards to say that the site maintainers should be the ones who are lazy and "should get to work". Why can't Microsoft just make a browser that's compliant with the standards and works with websites that already exist? Most sites don't have to be rewritten for every new release of Webkit or Gecko, why should Trident be any different?

Oh come on Paul, you're a professional in the IT industry, surely you know it's hardly a case of sites "that haven't taken as little as 10 minutes of time to make sure they work properly with IE 8".

Leaving aside the fact that it should be Microsoft making sure their software plays nice with sites that have been built with previous versions of that software (and therefore aren't compatible with web standards) you must know that in the corporate world it's often not exactly a simple process to update a site. One company I'm currently working with need ANY change (including a simple correction of a typo) to be made on an internal environment, tested, approved, reviewed, transfered to the live environment but kept off the public site, tested approved and reviewed AGAIN before going live. It's a massive pain in the backside but they're terrified of a problem on the site damaging the brand. A fairly extreme example but not a unique one either.

"Oh come on Paul, you're a professional in the IT industry"

He's a journalist.

@waethorn: ""Oh come on Paul, you're a professional in the IT industry"

He's a journalist."

I am a journalist too. It's easy. You just write what you want, make up stuff and you're good to go.

"I am a journalist too. It's easy. You just write what you want, make up stuff and you're good to go."

Get back to class, rj.  You got about 14 more years before you can actually study professional journalism.

@sdornan -- Most likely the sites are indeed at fault.  They are likely relying on IE-specific quirks that are no longer present in IE8 standards mode.

For example, take a site that designs for Firefox and then sends an IE-specific CSS file.  It's quite likely that with the CSS improvements in IE8 that they no longer need to use that IE-specific CSS, however because it's there it now causes the site to look bad by applying unnecessary corrections.  In other words if they were to send the same files to Firefox it would look just as bad.

If it were something that simple though, don't you think Microsoft.com would have made that change?

I have to say that for once I agree with rj.  Journalism ain't what it used to be, and with blogging and dying newspapers, it's only going to get worse.

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