Microsoft issued an official blog posting March 2 detailing its engineers thinking process behind the build of Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of its Web browser, and how it chooses to render certain Websites. According to the blog posting, some 19 percent of high-traffic Websites currently render in IE 8 standards. Microsoft is working to reduce the list of Websites that IE 8 needs a feature called Compatibility View in order to render all elements properly.
– As part of its drive to have as many Websites compatible with Internet
Explorer 8 as possible, Microsoft in a blog posting March 2
describes the thinking that went into how the browser chooses to render Websites.
For some sites, IE 8 needs a feature known as Compatibility View to render all
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