Compatibility and IE8

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Chris Wilson's, IE Platform Architect made an interesting post about the development of IE in the last seven years in terms of interoperability and backwards compatibility. He discusses the IE8 model for web development, namely "write to the standard, then test against and fix problems in the most popular browsers."

The following are the highlights of IE8 model for web development listed:

“Quirks mode” remains the same, and compatible with current content.
“Standards mode” remains the same as IE7, and compatible with current content.
If you (the page developer) really want the best standards support IE8 can give, you can get it by inserting a simple <meta> element.

"We believe this approach has the best blend of allowing web developers to easily write code to interoperable web standards while not causing compatibility problems with current content. We also think this approach allows developers to opt in to standards behavior on their own schedule and as it makes sense to them, instead of forcing developers into a responsive mode when a new version of IE has different behavior on their current pages," says Chris.

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