Submission + - IE8 sees massive improvements in standards support
Sander writes: "After well over a year without any news of substance, the Internet Explorer team has just broken this silence to announce that IE8 will show a massive increase in its support of web standards, and at this point even correctly renders the ACID2 test! (Firefox will render this test correctly as of version 3.)
There is a caveat however, in that this increase in standards will only show in a new "IE8 standards mode", which will not be triggered by any currently existing website (in order to not break compability with websites specifically built for IE6 or 7). On IRC, Chris Wilson has been seen to say that the new rendering mode will probably require a special META element, although it's uncertain if this is indeed the final solution that the IE team settled upon."
There is a caveat however, in that this increase in standards will only show in a new "IE8 standards mode", which will not be triggered by any currently existing website (in order to not break compability with websites specifically built for IE6 or 7). On IRC, Chris Wilson has been seen to say that the new rendering mode will probably require a special META element, although it's uncertain if this is indeed the final solution that the IE team settled upon."