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By: Olly

Olly — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:37:54 +0000

@Grey I’m trying not to think too much about IE9 and 10 yet ;)

Yep, the lemurs were an absolutely inspired move :)

By: Matt Robin

Matt Robin — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:09:30 +0000

Good article Olly. I was about to write up on the whole IE8 thing too (I might still do that actually, maybe)…but then Kate’s use of Lemurs is unashamedly-excellent and would make my article a bit pointless too (those lemurs rock!) ;)

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By: Caz Mockett

Caz Mockett — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:53:43 +0000

Sums is up nicely. And the link to the Lemurs was suberb!

By: Grey

Grey — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:08:30 +0000

I do *not* think you should interpret this as Microsoft pushing HTML5. As far as I know, there has not been any confirmation that IE will support HTML5 at any point in the future. And I actually think that if this triggers IE8’s “super standard mode”, we could have serious trouble once IE9, IE10, … start implementing HTML5. It means the default rendering mode for all HTML5 documents will forever be “IE8”.

Wilson already said if a doctype is widely deployed, they can’t change their rendering (the same thing that is happening now with HTML4 docs).