Comments on: Microsoft breaks standards compatibility promise with IE8 Beta 2

By: jimmeh

jimmeh — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:21:37 +0000

This is yet another reason why more than five years ago, I switched to using Firefox.

Since you had no knowledge of this five years ago, I’d imagine it hardly affected your decision.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:43:38 +0000

i u sure its not them making sure that all the companies that auto update dont just lose there intranet. in my oppinon they would be idots not to do this. can u picture all those admin going around turning this furture on (on some this hundudes of PCs ) because the company needs inranet and can’t just recode the whole site in a cople of days?

By: Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:08:42 +0000

Wow, it really has been 5 years eh? I feel old now. I think 0.7 was when Phoenix started working well enough for me to use it as my primary browser. What a great 5 years it’s been, too.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:54:25 +0000

Obviously switching to Firefox made you lose your rationality as well. I mean, Firefox is so standards compliant as well isnt it?

Seriously, Microsoft screwed up years ago and now are going about the only possible way of fixing it… it’ll take a long time and it’ll be annoying but its sure a lot better then doing what you and others seem to be suggesting. Boy companies love browsers which break just about every page they want to use.

And since when was the Registar a quote-worthy source? =P

By: Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:35:02 +0000

It might be worth putting a bit more effort in and making it more clearly what’s actually happening here. :/

The screenshot quite clearly shows two checkboxes: one for intranet pages, and one for websites. Only the intranet checkbox is ticked by default. Regular websites are still shown in standards-compliant mode.

This would make sense as intranets I’ve used (including router control panels) have had horrible HTML. There’ll obviously be those that’re well coded too though, so it is a bit of a weird distinction to make.

I’m not sure how exactly is discerns what an intranet page is. If it means any local page, that’s a bit iffy as most people testing their websites will be doing it locally first. I can see a lot of developers not in the know being weirded out when the pages that looked one way on their local machine look markedly different once online.