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Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

March 5, 2008

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 the site, including how to make your site “light up” on IE8:

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

March 4, 2008

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 information delivered per page or at the server level. After a lot of [...]

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Revising My Thoughts of the Future

January 25, 2008

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 as many on the Net, I see this as a major problem. Microsoft will implement [...]

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The Future of Compatibility

January 22, 2008

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 renewed discussions and arguments.
After an initial reading, I rather like the idea. [...]

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Max Design – A webstandards checklist

August 13, 2004

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 Web-Graphics

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