Joel Spolsky has a long article on the subject of the IE team’s decision to prioritise standards over compatibility in IE8. While he cheekily claims not to be taking any sides, it’s pretty clear he’s with the pragmatists.
So am I.
Oh dear. It looked for a while as though Microsoft was going to make the right decision on compatibility vs. standards compliance in IE8. But they’ve reversed their decision now. Why? The Microsoft Interoperability Principles.
I pointed out the reasons that their original approach was the right one a few weeks ago.
So, once again, a press [...]
When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 they broke a huge number of sites. Why? They had tried to make IE7 standards-compatible, but had failed to understand how much work developers had had to go through to make their sites work in IE6 in the first place. There was a load of ‘best practice guidance’ guff [...]
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