I thought she left Microsoft

Megan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:24:40 +0000

I thought she left Microsoft quite awhile ago, like last summer sometime.

I remember reading something else from her somewhere that was much more candid about what happened there but I forget where that was ... probably comments on someone else's blog around the time of the big IE7 by default commotion.

On her blog Molly gives this

decibel.places — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:05:16 +0000

On her blog Molly gives this warning:

... Microsoft IE8 will blacklist sites where the IE7 compatibility button is used by many people. This means that if you want IE8 readiness, you have to get ready now, or you run the risk of having your sites be on this blacklist, forcing IE7 rendering even if you authored the sites using open standards. So while this post is a personal announcement, anyone working on the Web please read up on this issue and pre-empt a potential blacklist on your site.

I do not see that as "encouraging" people to use IE 7 compatibility

decibel.places wrote: now

webwiz — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:45:04 +0000

decibel.places wrote:

now along comes IE8 that is not standards compliant either...

Well, IE 8 does seem to have quite good CSS 2.1 compliance. The point is, though, that they are encouraging people to switch to IE 7 compatible mode, which is definitely not compliant, and has bugs a-plenty.

Gog wrote: Why design a new

decibel.places — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:07:31 +0000

Gog wrote:

Why design a new browser and backdate its compatibility mode.

1. People have designed their sites for IE7 compatibility - so IE8 can act like IE7

2. God damn MS - we're already tweaking and adding conditional stylesheets for IE7 and IE6 and now along comes IE8 that is not standards compliant either...

Why design a new browser and

Gog — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:21:56 +0000

Why design a new browser and backdate its compatibility mode. The idea with a new browser is to push the technology and move on.