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Finally the day has come; Tweakers.net has decided to stop active support for Internet Explorer version 6 (Dutch)! Only yesterday Microsoft released version 8 of it's browser, but that also moved our support for Internet Explorer up with one notch.

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I blogged about this before and I'm doing it again. Reason for this post is the recent 'recap' by Microsoft on the compatibility view feature which just further illustrates how Microsoft is secretly turning the standards compliance treatment of IE8 back into an opt-in for many sites.

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Some time ago Microsoft made a 180 turn on their decision to make IE7 rendering mode the default for IE8. This seemed to be a commitment to standards compliance which gained them renewed trust from a lot of parties. But now that IE8's appearance is near, how do they keep up to that promise?

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Vandaag werden we verrast door een mailtje van Microsoft. Je weet wel, dat bedrijf dat tegenwoordig zo begaan is met webstandaarden. IE8 is naar hun zeggen zelfs volledig standards compliant(!). Ze nemen zelfs de moeite om websites te testen in IE8 en de site-eigenaren op de hoogte te stellen van het resultaat van hun test. Het resultaat zal geen verassing zijn...

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And Microsoft does it again by making their proprietary X-UA-Compatible tag completely incompatible with current browser behaviour...

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