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Posts Tagged with web standards

Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

Microsoft has posted the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit page. While the links don’t work quite yet, odds are good that an announcement will be made at MIX. Hat tip to Jonathan Snook for the link.

There’s some interesting information available on…

A Good Day for the Web - IE8 to Properly Support Standards

The IE team announced a change from their previously stated plan for IE 8 ‘involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” mode, and requiring developers to ask for IE8’s actual “Standards” mode separately’ via a specific bit of meta…

Revising My Thoughts of the Future

Having spent some time digging into the various arguments around IE 8’s plan to address compatibility concerns since my first post on the subject, I’ve shifted away from my initial embrace of the plan. While I’m not as deeply entrenched…

The Future of Compatibility

A List Apart has ignited a discussion around future-proofing our sites and targeting specific browser version. Read Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 and Eric Meyer’s From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey to learn what has sparked the…

Max Design - A webstandards checklist

Max Design provides a handy webstandards checklist:

a guide that can be used:

  • to show the breadth of web standards
  • as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites
  • as an aid for developers who are interested in moving towards web standards

Via…