http://blog.jgh.me.uk Fri, 06 May 2011 17:59:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.jgh.me.uk/2009/07/microsoft-irony/ http://blog.jgh.me.uk/2009/07/microsoft-irony/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:02:09 +0000 Jonathan http://sinewave42.com/blog/?p=67 Microsoft (sorry, Windows in a vain attempt to reduce the risk of anti-trust suits) Internet Explorer 8 has “compatibility mode” (read incompatibility), to “improve the appearance of web pages designed for older browsers”. In other words: now we’ve built a standards-compliant-ish browser, we need a mode that makes it render like its older, non-compliant siblings because every site on the web serves bad code when it sees our user agent. Once again, Microsoft is hoist upon its own petard.

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