Microsoft acknowledges that there were many bugs in IE6 and IE7, and promises IE8 will be much more standards-compliant. In order to make it act in a more standards-compliant way, however, you will have to include a non-standard tag in your HTML HEAD section. Otherwise it will continue to act like the pieces of bloated crapware that IE6 and IE7 were.

Thanks for the big “fuck you”, Microsoft. How about paying everyone back for all the time they’ve wasted dealing with your crappy browsers?

[Yes, I get that this is, in practical terms, a good strategy for avoiding breaking a lot of web pages that depend on IE6/IE7 mis-behaviour, but at the same time it is rubbing salt in a pretty deep wound.]

Via: Slashdot | Microsoft Confirms IE8 Has 3 Render Modes
[tags]microsoft, ie, ie8, internet explorer, internet explorer 8, standards, wtf[/tags]

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