IE8 to display like IE8
Despite early announcements that IE8 would default to displaying pages as if it were IE7, Microsoft is now announcing that it will default to Standards mode. This will alleviate the need for designers to opt out, by opting in as I’ve written about before.
Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
Consistent with its efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft Corp. is now configuring the settings in Internet Explorer 8, the upcoming version of its browser, to render content - by default - using methods that give top priority to Web standards interoperability.
This is the best news I’ve heard from Microsoft in quite some time. I was really hoping this issue would be resolved before IE8 came onto the market, but I was holding little hope. They have in the past seemed more inclined to use their own proprietary standards than to “give top priority to Web standards interoperability”. I’m happy top see that that wasn’t the case here.