[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

Michael Kraemer m.kraemer at gsi.de
Tue Jan 12 08:28:44 EST 2010


In article <7f61ffd6-1db3-43f3-8a63-a9f39c88c0fe at u41g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
FrankS <sapienza at noesys.com> writes:
> On Jan 12, 12:38=A0am, "Jeffrey H. Coffield"
> <jeff... at digitalsynergyinc.com> wrote:
> > One would think, but apparently the bytes served are not compatible with
> > IE8. I find this ironic as the MLS sites apparently mostly use IIS on
> > Windows servers.
> >
> 
> It's apparently not quite a problem with IIS, but with the content of
> the pages served by IIS.  The "horse's mouth" description is at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx.
> Presumably, the problem can occur with any web server that generates
> pages that don't meet IE8s requirements.
> 
> Don't ya just love the lack of backward compatibility?  And all this
> talk of standards, yet it's being done three different ways in IE6,
> IE7, and IE8.

Now where's Superhero Cutler and his ex-DECies
when they're needed ...



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