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IE8 compatibility mode != IE7?

• In: Blog
• By: John
• March 15, 2009
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With the release of IE8 seemingly imminent, and with many developers still not testing their sites with IE8, the IE team have just posted details of how IE8’s compatibility mode is not necessarily identical to IE7

We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but we do make exceptions. Many of these exceptions enable improved security and accessibility features immediately, even for sites that have not yet migrated to IE8 Standards Mode.

Read the details at the IE team blog.

2 responses to “IE8 compatibility mode != IE7?”:

• By: Richard Fink
• March 17th, 2009

It’s like a riddle, I know. Takes a little while to wrap your head around the whole IE7 Compat Mode vs IE8 Standards thing.

The intent (I think) on the part of the IE team was to not deny certain features just because a site was designed to render with IE7 in mind. (Plus, let’s face it, they might have run into some extremely tough trade-offs. IE8 is three browsers in one: IE8 Quirks, IE8 in IE7 Compat, and IE8 Standards. I’m amazed the damned thing works as well as it does.)

The consequence is that, yes, IE8 in IE7 Compat mode will break a few things that currently work in IE7.

But it’s just a few things, not a huge list.

And there’s precedent - a lot of things available in IE7 Standards are not available in Quirks Mode, nor should they be.

• By: Luke
• September 8th, 2009

What a hideous arse-up. 3 browsers in one, none of which do the job. Someone please put this software out of it’s misery, the internets deserve better.

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