Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default

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There's no conspiracy

I have to say that it's a little bizarre to suggest that, after all of the effort the IE team has put in to get IE8 to pass the Acid2 test, that they'd go to great lengths not to use it. The IE team's concern is maintaining backward compatability. Despite your suggestion, doctype switching is not a "standard," as none of the HTML or XHTML versions say anything about how the user agent is to render the markup. My best guess is that whether IE8 continues to use doctype switching will depend on the IE team's survey of how many sites would break if they used it.

There's not much that is sinister in that. It's hard to see how not conforming would give them a competitive advantage; everyone knows what IE's rendering bugs are and it would not be that difficult for other browsers to mimick them if they wanted to.

Posted by: danculley   Posted on: 01/23/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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