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IEBlog : Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
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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.
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This is a huge boost to the future of the web IMO. Microsofts stance on their proprietary meta tag was a smack in the face of standards supporters and showed their own in adequacies up in a rather serious way - all modern browsers can render pages without having to have a meta tag added to render pages correctly.
Perhaps the following statement is a reference to the recent legal challenge mounted by Opera:
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While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue.
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