Official Release of IE8

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And how right you are on this call SS.

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Peter

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Oh, and BTW, I am not someone that is too shy to criticise MS when it is
deserved, but making IE8 use Standards Mode by default was a pretty brave
decision, as there is now going to be a torrent of people unfairly
complaining about it being broken, when they misunderstand what is really
going on.

ss.
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Brave? How about "just plain stupid". IE7 defaulted to quirks mode,
like most every other browser, unless told otherwise to enforce strict
standards. There are literally millions of sites out there that were
built under that understanding - including most of those built with
the tools MS sold.

Now they reverse that and decide that the world should comply. That's
not brave, it's typical MS stupidity and arrogance.
 
I think you missed the part where he said that it was a dynamic PHP page.
The W3C Validator is not going to check what the PHP scripting puts into the
page, so whether the XHTML container validates or not is irrelevant. He
should have been validating the CSS anyway - not the XHTML - there is a
separate test for that.
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I'm assuming that he tested the output page for compatibility, not the
template page. If he tested the template (I supposed it's possible)
then you are correct.
 
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