Microsoft talks standards support for IE 8
WinInfo | at | by Mike
In keeping with its ongoing aim to not "break the Web" with major changes to the Internet Explorer rendering engine, Microsoft this week revealed how it will handle its support of Web standards in the next version of the Web browser. IE 8 will sport three different compatibility modes, up from two in IE 7, one of which will more firmly conform to modern Web standards. There's just one problem: This new more rigid standards mode won't be enabled by default because, Microsoft says, enabling it will break compatibility with too much of the existing Web. According to Chris Wilson, an IE platform architect, there are half a billion IE users and "billions" of pages on the Web today that already work in IE 6 and IE 7.