Internet Explorer 8: What’s in a Revision Name?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. And a web browser lacking basic web compliance by any other name would also smell.
With it’s release of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has once again heralded it’s intentions to make the Internet less than it could be. Not much has changed yet, despite Bill Gates’ departure.
I know it’s snarky and not constructive to say. But how long is Microsoft going to drag it’s feet on standards compliance for the web? IE8 is the first browser to be – by Microsoft’s estimation, at least – fully CSS2 compliant. That’s a nearly ten [...]

