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You've got at least 80% of web designers ensuring good layout as part of all of their compliance testing. Additionally, there's plenty of legacy intranet applic
by xirium 19y ago
You've got at least 80% of web designers ensuring good layout as part of all of their compliance testing. Additionally, there's plenty of legacy intranet applications that only work well on Internet Explorer. Not defaulting to a quirks mode is a quick method to annoy designers and managers.
- umjames 19y agoAnd hopefully a quicker way to get glacially slow, complacent IT departments (and the enterprise vendors they use) to use web standards. So some pages break because the site was IE-only. Nothing like a swamped help desk to get the IT department up and moving.
- eggnet 19y agoAs far as I know, IE 8 does default to quirks mode unless you specify the strict doctype. Seems reasonable to me. If you have an intranet site that depends on the way IE 7 works, I think the simple answer is not to deploy IE 8 in your corporation until the Intranet site works with it.