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

[Paul Sture]

In article <4b4e7a57$0$279$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> 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.).
> 

I came across something a few years ago which described how backward 
compatible many browser actually are. I know that when It was only when 
converting some ancient HTML that I realised how broken that HTML was 
and what a huge job this is.

-- 
Paul Sture