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Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise
- mrkurt 18y agoThe "show intranet sites in compatibility mode" thing is really just an acknowledgement that IE is both a web browser and a general frontend for internal business apps. Should anyone actually give a shit what kind of markup companies use for their internal apps?
- bvttf 18y agoIf internal sites are written for a buggy platform instead of a standard, it makes it harder to change browsers inside the company. Marketshare! Lock-in! Innovation!
- rbanffy 18y ago<sarcasm> Geez... I couldn't see that coming... </sarcasm>
- michael_dorfman 18y agoShouldn't the headline be "Competitor claims Microsoft breaks interoperability promise"? The author is not exactly a neutral observer...
- olavk 18y agoDo you think he is wrong? His description of the issue is consistent with Microsofts own: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-compatibility-view.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-comp...
- ComputerGuru 18y agoDammned if you do, dammned if you don't
- Elepsis 18y agoThis is nonsense. Yes, Microsoft is acknowledging that most intranet sites aren't properly configured to work with all browsers/standard compliant. But that hardly means they're breaking the promise to make IE render web pages in standards mode. This is probably the best solution to the broken intranet sites issue anyone could have come up with. And the whining about the icon is truly ridiculous. The logic for Microsoft's choice is obvious: "Does the site look broken to you? Click on the broken page button."