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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12-01-2010 08:28, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 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 ...

They probably never worked on IE.

But even if they did, then I have never seen Cutler
mentioned as the standards man.

Arne