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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12-01-2010 08:10, FrankS wrote:
> On Jan 12, 12:38 am, "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.

Browser compatibility has been a huge problem.

Web developers primarily develop for the standards (and IE8
work fine with that) - and then consider what they want
to support of older browsers (IE5, IE6, various old NS etc.).

Arne