Comments on: Round Two – IE8 Backflip, Hell Just Froze Over

By: Nick Cowie

Nick Cowie — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:18:20 +0000

This is great news.

IE8 rendering as IE6, while high on a the wish list of some the big corporate networks and creators of those finance and HR systems is unlikely to happen:

1. Microsoft have steered clear of any mention of IE6 when talking about IE8.
2. Microsoft would have to admit they got it wrong with IE7.

IE6 appears to be dead and buried as far as Microsoft are concerned, just nobody has told the the big corporate networks and purveyors of those big finance and HR systems.

At work for the first time ever we now have equal number of visitors using IE7 and IE6

By: Ben Buchanan

Ben Buchanan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:33:13 +0000

If MS play it right, they can actually make themselves into the heros for the big bad intranets/corporates.

People with broken sites: “argh! you broke it!”
MS: “no, you broke it; but here’s the one-line fix anyway.”

It’s an easy enough fix for those sites that need it. Particularly since it can be done with server headers.

By: Adam Schilling

Adam Schilling — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:32:43 +0000

Giddy with geekjoy! Such an amazing turnabout.