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	Microsoft Promises 'backwards incompatibility' on internet explorer 8.0

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8-30-2008 4:41 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/93324e4d-3edd-44f5-ac61-a603e29393a1/B2261196-C61C-412A-8DE7-2CDDBC888D43/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/" href="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geeksaresexy.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geeksaresexy.net/img/D784F66A-51C7-4F93-BB3A-89111399E2DD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><P>The new browser will come with a ‘compatibility button’, which users can click if they stumble across a site that was designed for older versions of the software. Once pressed, the page will reload in ‘compatibility mode’.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><P>Sounds fair enough, but this quote from David Mitchell, senior vice-president for research at Microsoft, must be, I assume, a mistake, because otherwise it’s quite surreal.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><P>“Sites that are specifically written for IE will not display properly. Many people probably will not ever use the compatibility button that Microsoft has built into IE8, which means some sites will not work and the user will get a message saying the site needs Internet Explorer.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><P>So let’s get this straight - the new version of IE will not support some sites that were written <EM>specifically for Internet Explorer</EM>, and that the software will then display an error page and tell users to download Internet Explorer?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/28/microsoft-promises-backwards-compatibility-on-internet-explorer-80/"><P>That’s going to go down like a riot with the boys at Mozilla.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B2261196-C61C-412A-8DE7-2CDDBC888D43/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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