A great news for every web developer in this world, Internet Explorer 8 will render content in a standards compliant way by default. In case you have not been following the recent activities, what was originally planned was to require developers to add a meta tag to specify the version in which you wanted the content of your site to render in. This tag will still be of some kind of uses and it will be implemented, but it will not be needed.
According to the IE team blog, there are multiple standards.
There’s Safari 3’s Standards mode, Firefox 2’s Standards mode, IE6’s Standards mode, and IE7’s Standards mode, and they’re all different. We want to make IE8’s Standards mode much, much better than IE7’s Standards mode.
There is no multiple standards mode. There is one standard compliant way to render content and different browsers implements more or less of that standard. I have to say that IE7 does not implement much of the standard in regards to Safari, Firefox, Camino or Opera. I am pretty sure IE8 will do much better.
This is a small victory for open standards and those who are trying to push them. Today, developing websites using the standards will make sure your application will render correctly in the future in most browsers.
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