News - nternet Explorer 8 compatible with standards

Microsoft prepares to launch the new version of Internet Explorer. A new feature in this version is web standards compliance, which may pose a problem for millions of websites developed for the special features of Microsoft's browser. To ease the transition, Microsoft provides documentation and technical recommendations on its website and advises webmasters to prepare content so you can see it properly in any browser. After Microsoft announced it would change its policy to change the standards to make them incompatible, are beginning to see the fruits. The new version of Office will use the ODF open document format, in addition to Microsoft's own. And finally the Internet Explorer browser will be compatible with web standards. When at the end of last century Microsoft won the browser wars with Netscape, virtually all users switched to Explorer. Microsoft's browser did not meet the standard, so Web site developers should create their sites, taking into account the particularities of this browser, and ignoring the standards promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The emergence of alternative browsers like Opera and Firefox, which meet the standards and in the case of the latter already have a market share exceeding 20%, forcing programmers to create two versions of websites, one for Explorer and another for other browsers. Now, the new version of Explorer will interpret correctly the standard pages, but that is a problem for millions of webmasters who developed their web sites taking into account only the Microsoft browser. To alleviate the problem and ease the transition, Microsoft is offering technical information and documentation on its website. They have also defined a meta-tag (a tag) where webmasters can include on your site to tell Explorer that your page is designed for earlier versions of the browser, and therefore displays the contents as you would Explorer 7.