Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 to debut as "Standards Compliant" — Web Designers Rejoice http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-to-debut-as-standards-compliant-web-designers-rejoice/ Promoting Web Standards and teaching web design tricks of the trade Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:27:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Dmitry Fadeev http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-to-debut-as-standards-compliant-web-designers-rejoice/#comment-616 Dmitry Fadeev Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:26:04 +0000 http://www.pixelshell.com/blog/internet-explorer-8-to-debut-as-standards-compliant-web-designers-rejoice/#comment-616 This is a great decision on Microsoft's part -- finally they've listened to the users and developers. One thing I also like is the ability to put a line of code that will make IE8 run in IE7 mode, which would be useful for people who needed to make hacks for IE7 -- and if anything breaks in the new version they can just use the old mode until they need to redesign the site/application. I'm still not terribly excited however because of the fact that we're still designing sites with IE6 in mind. Even today, IE6 has a relatively large market share, and when IE8 comes out, IE6 will still remain in use -- and we'll still need to optimize for it. Standards compliant web design would only really become easier when IE6 is completely gone, but I don't think that will come too soon. This is a great decision on Microsoft’s part — finally they’ve listened to the users and developers. One thing I also like is the ability to put a line of code that will make IE8 run in IE7 mode, which would be useful for people who needed to make hacks for IE7 — and if anything breaks in the new version they can just use the old mode until they need to redesign the site/application.

I’m still not terribly excited however because of the fact that we’re still designing sites with IE6 in mind. Even today, IE6 has a relatively large market share, and when IE8 comes out, IE6 will still remain in use — and we’ll still need to optimize for it. Standards compliant web design would only really become easier when IE6 is completely gone, but I don’t think that will come too soon.

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