Subscribe to RSS Subscribe to Comments

Commafruit

This one slipped under my radar somehow: Microsoft have changed the default rendering behaviour of Internet Explorer 8. Previously, the plan was that IE8 would behave as IE7, unless the developer added a special <meta> tag. Now, the default is to use the (slightly more standards compliant) IE8 renderer by default, but give the developer the option to use IE7-style rendering (again, but means of a <meta> tag). PPK sums it up nicely:

Microsoft has decided to put the interests of web standards above the interests of the Intranets of its corporate clients.

I advise you to read the previous paragraph again. Even two years ago I had never expected to be able to write such a statement.

[...]
Tags: , , ,
AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Standards schmandards

December 03rd 2007 Posted in Seen On Web

I found the Standards schmandards website via Fangs – a plug-in for Firefox which produces a text version of the speech output delivered by JAWS. But there is a raft of other content here, including this list of government guidelines regarding accessibility. What really sold the site to me was this snippet from the about page:

…we will not bitch about web standards all the time. You already know it is good for you. Also, we will not go fanatic on you and say that you can’t use Flash or that your web site sucks if it doesn’t display properly in Lynx…

Disclaimer: I realise my own site doesn’t meet most guidelines, changes are afoot though.

Comments Off

Tags: , , , ,
AddThis Social Bookmark Button