The best news this week and it’s only Tuesday! Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 8 will render pages via the super standards mode by default. By doing this, Microsoft listens to the critique that has fallen over the company in the past few weeks, when it announced that Internet Explorer 8 would render in the Internet Explorer 7-way by default.

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Via a special HTML-tag in the sourcecode of HTML pages, developers are able to switch between the rendering-modes the new browser houses. Microsoft implemented this function in order to make old files, not written by standards, renderable in the new browser.

But why should we adapt our browser, to people who are unable to write HTML following the standards? Thanks to Microsoft, we don’t have to. Hopefully the new ’super standards mode’ will actually follow the standards and I’m no longer shouting at people who are still using Internet Explorer, instead of Firefox or Opera to test their HTML pages!

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