Finally: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode
In an impressive volte-face, Microsoft has decided that Internet Explorer 8 will default to being compliant with web standards after all, and will not, as previously announced, require web pages to explicitly opt in to conforming behavior.
Internet Explorer presently has two modes for displaying web pages: "quirks" mode, for showing old or particularly badly-formed pages, and "standards" mode, for showing pages that appear to conform to the various specifications that govern the web. The problem with this was that IE 7 doesn't honor the...
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