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Microsoft’s IE 8 Compatibility List: Is it working?
All about Microsoft — ... is going to change much, if at all, between now and the time IE 8 is released. For months, Microsoft has been banging the drum for site owners to update their code — either by adding compatibility tags or redoing sites to take into account the changes in IE 8. Many site admins and developers have said they weren’t willing to take on that task until Microsoft delivered a near-final test release — at least a Release Candidate. Some critics have said they think Microsoft is doing a disservice to developers by offering compatibility work-arounds . They say Microsoft created its ...

Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility list: 2,400 major sites (and counting)
All about Microsoft — ... to the Release Candidate test version of IE 8 that the company released in January. Microsoft describes the list — Version 1.0 of which includes 2,400 sites that don’t render properly in IE 8 (in other words, an “incompatibility list” –  as a tool designed to “make sure IE8 customers have a great experience with highly trafficked sites that have not yet fully accomodated IE8’s better implementation of web standards .” There is a ...

Microsoft IE8’s incompatibility list: 2,400 major sites and counting….
D' Technology Weblog — ... . Microsoft describes the list — Version 1.0 of which includes 2,400 sites that don’t render properly in IE 8 (in other words, an “incompatibility list” – as a tool designed to “make sure IE8 customers have a great experience with highly trafficked sites that have not yet fully accomodated IE8’s better implementation of web standards.” There is a downloadable list for ...

Ask DLS: What do you make of IE8's giant incompatability list?
Download Squad — ... I particularly like one excerpt from the IEBlog: Site owners are *always* in control of their content. That's important to remember in case you were thinking the browser had something to do with why a site looks fine in Firefox, Chrome, or Opera but not IE. ...