Dave pointed me to the announcement about IE8's standards mode this morning. The short of it is that the IE team will do The Right Thing with version 8, rendering in IE8 standards mode by default, not IE7 standards mode, which can still be explicitly requested via meta tags. See the A List Apart article for how to do that.
I have two questions. First, why did anyone ever think it was a good idea to make IE7 Standards mode the default in IE8? I know all of the technical reasons and backwards compatibility blah blah blah, but when is a new version allowed to be a new damned version already? Second, why do they have Peter Boyle from Young Frankenstein at the podium on their Interoperability Page? I know I can't be the first to draw that comparison, but the resemblance seems particularly striking in this shot. Oh, and third, why is the name of that image file "hero.jpg"?
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