Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
Microsoft has decided to abandon the “controversial” version targeting feature in Internet Explorer 8.
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.
Short and to the point. Needless to say standardistas are delighted, and not just because version targeting has been dropped .
It seems like Microsoft actually listened to the developer community, which is so surprising to me it hasn’t quite sunk in yet. As a standards-advocating web developer I have become so used to Microsoft completely ignoring the needs of myself and my fellow standardistas that I could never have imagined them changing their minds on this.
