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• Help Microsoft Test Site Rendering With New IE8 Add-on

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Mar 06 2008, 09:14 PM

  Filed under: IE8

  If you're running the IE8 Beta, Microsoft has put out a new tool that can help them identify web pages with rendering problems in the new Standards mode. I'm not sure how they are going to address it internally, but hey, at least we can start going through
  

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• Guess Who's Not Ready For IE8?

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Mar 05 2008, 04:43 PM

  Filed under: IE8

  Microsoft! Live.com is totally broken in IE8. Which I find kind of odd, because I would have imagined that the Live.com team had access to the beta. At any rate, changing tabs doesn't work, the Start Orb is broken, and only 3 of the panels on my front
  

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• IE8 Will Default to Standards Mode

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Mar 03 2008, 02:15 PM

  Filed under: IE8

  From Dean H. over on the IE Blog : One issue we heard repeatedly during the IE7 beta concerned sites that looked fine in IE6 but looked bad in IE7. The reason was that the sites had worked around IE6 issues with content that – when viewed with IE7’s
  

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• IE8 Passes Acid2, Finally Achieves Full Standards Compliance

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Dec 19 2007, 12:51 PM

  Filed under: IE8

  "Don't misinterpret silence for inaction." That's what Dean Hachamovitch, GM of the IE Team, said in a blog post two weeks ago . Boy, he wasn't kidding. At first glance, this test seems simple. I think it actually offers a view into the subtle and complex
  

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• "I'll have to ask Dean what the hell is going on..."

  Posted by Robert McLaws to Robert McLaws: Windows Edition on Dec 06 2007, 10:24 AM

  Filed under: IE8

  "...I mean, we're not -- there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE." That's what Bill Gates said when asked about the status of IE8 at the uber-elite Mix-N-Mash event in Redmond. As Mary Jo pointed out , the next day Dean posted
  

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