Persuading Microsoft to Implement Canvas « Processing.js Blog
The 26 step process required to add +1 to a feature request in IE. Franz Kafka is alive and well and living in Redmond.
The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by Troy Hunt
A good explanation of the litany of woes that comes from Internet Explorer 8 being the highest that users of Windows XP can upgrade to. It’s a particularly woeful situation if you are a web developer attempting to provide parity. But there is hope on the horizon:
2013 will see the culmination of all these issues; support for IE 8 will drop of rapidly, users of XP will find an increasingly broken web, the cost of building software in XP organisations will increase.
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isolani - Web Standards: IE8 Blacklist: forcing standards rendering opt-in
Bend over 'cause Microsoft is about to stick it to us standards-savvy developers. Again.
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register
Håkon is not happy with the default settings in IE8. Deep in the preferences, "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" is checked.
A reasoned response to X-UA-Compatible • Gated Logic • nevali.net
A nice analysis and skewering of Microsoft's proposed default behaviour for version targeting.
this is rachelandrew.co.uk » IE8 and the future of the web
Rachel adds her thoughts on Microsoft's broken implementation of version switching—and very good thoughts they are too.
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Dealing with IE again
Some clarification.