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In Dean’s recent Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone post, he highlighted our responsibility to deliver both interoperability (web pages working well across different browsers) and backwards compatibility (web pages working well across different versions of IE). We need to do both, so that IE8 continues to work with the billions of pages on the web today that already work in IE6 and IE7 but also makes the development of the next billion pages (in an interoperable way) much easier. Continuing Dean’s theme, I’d like to talk about some steps we are taking in IE8 to achieve these goals. I’ve been on the IE team for over a decade, and I’ve seen us apply the “Don’t Break the Web” rule in six different major versions of IE in different ways. In IE 6, we used the DOCTYPE switch to enable different “modes” of behavior to protect compatibility. When we released IE 6 in 2001, very few pages on the web were in “standards mode” (my team ran a report on the top 200 web sites at the time that reported less than 1%) – few people knew what a DOCTYPE was, and few tools generated them. We used the DOCTYPE switch in IE6 to change the box model to comply with the standards and enable developers to opt-in to the new behavior. We’d already seen so much content written to IE5.x’s non-standard interpretation of the CSS2 spec that we couldn’t change it without causing a slew of problems. In IE7 we made a lot more changes to improve IE’s standards compliance, particularly with CSS. We limited these behavior changes to IE’s “standards mode” only, and we expected that this would help limit compatibility problems as it had in the past. Unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly to us, this wasn’t true; many of those changes made IE incompatible with content that was already part of the web. It turned out by the time IE7 shipped in late 2006, roughly half of the top 200 US web sites were in “standards mode”. Many of those sites had been “opted in” to standards mode by a tool that generated their content; many of them had probably been hand-coded by someone who was trying to do the right thing, and make their HTML code valid according to the W3C. Regardless, users of those sites expected them to keep working the same, even when they downloaded a new version of IE. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. But wait, a lot of people say at this point, why isn’t this a problem for Firefox, or Safari, or any other browser? The answer is that developers of many sites had worked around many of the shortcomings or outright errors in IE6, and now expected IE7 to work just like IE6. Web developers expected us, for example, to maintain our model for how content overflows its box, even in “standards mode,” even though it didn’t follow the specification – because they’d already made their content work with our model. In many cases, these sites would have worked better if they had served IE7 the same content and stylesheets they were serving when visited with a non-IE browser, but they had “fixed their content” for IE. Sites didn’t work, and users experienced problems. In short, there was an expectation that even under standards mode, IE would keep working the same way. Because sites expected IE6 behavior, the DOCTYPE switch failed to protect compatibility in the real world when we changed behavior under standards mode to become more compliant. We realized that “Don’t Break the Web” should really be translated to “Don’t change what developers expect IE to do for current pages that are already deployed.” (Of course, for content that is developed to a later standard that isn’t deployed yet, you can expect different things.) With this painful and unexpected lesson under our belt, we worked together with The Web Standards Project (in the WaSP-Microsoft Task Force) on this problem. I can’t give them enough credit for this work; it’s tough to step into the shoes of a browser vendor that ships to half a billion users to figure out what the best thing to do is, when you really just want to sit down and write code to the standards. We started from a simple statement of “enable (and encourage) interoperable web development, but don’t force IE to break pages that work properly in IE today.” I think we all want to converge to a world where a web developer doesn’t have to spend much time at all testing and recoding their site for different browsers. At the same time, we can’t break the web experience on current sites for users like my mom, even for as good a reason as improving standards compliance. With all the great styling and layout changes we’re working on in our new engine for IE8 to be much more standards compliant, that’s a lot of potential breakage. (More details in the near future, but the Acid2 announcement gives you some idea.) We realized that the model for web development was really “write to the standard, then test against and fix problems in the most popular browsers.” This meant that the web developer had one crucial piece of information we could make use of – what version of IE they had tested against, and after much discussion in the WaSP-MS task force, we ended up with a -based “opt-in to the browser version I tested with” strategy. Aaron Gustafson, one of the members of the WaSP-MicrosoftTask Force wrote an article detailing where we ended up that was posted on A List Apart today; I highly recommend reading it for a different perspective. I’ll summarize, though, that: “Quirks mode” remains the same, and compatible with current content. “Standards mode” remains the same as IE7, and compatible with current content. If you (the page developer) really want the best standards support IE8 can give, you can get it by inserting a simple element. Aaron gives more details on this in his article. We believe this approach has the best blend of allowing web developers to easily write code to interoperable web standards while not causing compatibility problems with current content. We also think this approach allows developers to opt in to standards behavior on their own schedule and as it makes sense to them, instead of forcing developers into a responsive mode when a new version of IE has different behavior on their current pages. I’m excited by all the standards work we’re doing in IE8; I’m even more excited that we won’t cause a lot of compatibility problems for our users and web developers. Chris Wilson IE Platform Architect http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7190851 More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Windows Blackcomb which turned into Windows Vienna and now Windows 7 is reportedly going to be released in the second quarter of 2009.Techshout has reported that key partners have already received a copy of Windows 7. This should give Microsoft quick comments and recommendations on the product. It is said that Windows 7 has MinWin [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Harvey Norman, Officeworks, Dick Smith Electronics, Domayne, JB Hi-Fi, Harris Technology, Myer, Leading Edge, City Software, and other stores would have Microsoft Windows Vista Promotions available for purchase.The promotions are:Upgrade with Confidence - this is a 75 USD voucher which can be used by customers to purchase technical support services which include: transferring of content [...] More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechFaith Launches Wireless Content Unit SYS-CON Media, NJ - 6 hours ago TechFaith's wireless game terminals will be Windows Mobile based and ultra small PCs will be based on Windows Vista and Windows XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> TechFaith Launches Wireless Content Unit SYS-CON Media, NJ - 5 hours ago TechFaith's wireless game terminals will be Windows Mobile based and ultra small PCs will be based on Windows Vista and Windows XP. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What Bugs Apple Fans Forbes, NY - Jan 19, 2008 ... they've still got to have a copy of Windows somewhere on their Mac--and that means plunking down $200 and up for an edition of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> ca internet security report forecasts top online threats in the Al-Bawaba, Jordan - 35 minutes ago Windows Vista at risk: Although it is designed as Microsoft’s most secure operating system, 20 vulnerabilities were reported in 2007, according to the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

If you're one of the millions of people who got a new Xbox 360 over the holidays, you might be surprised to discover that it's good for more than just video games. Find out more in Xbox 360: Digital Media Hub! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 fast-tracked due to unpopular Vista? PC Advisor, UK - 1 hour ago There's been a healthy debate in our forum following last week's blog about InfoWorld's Save XP campaign. As someone who uses XP in the office, but Vista at ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows 7 fast-tracked due to unpopular Vista? PC Advisor, UK - 26 minutes ago There's been a healthy debate in our forum following last week's blog about InfoWorld's Save XP campaign. As someone who uses XP in the office, but Vista at ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 40000+ sign 'Save Windows XP' petition PC Advisor, UK - 11 minutes ago The petition asks Microsoft not to discontinue Windows XP as planned on June 30, but to instead keep it available alongside the newer Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Jan-2008 LXer (press release), TX - 13 minutes ago It’s supposed to be dramatically more secure and stable than any Windows Microsoft has ever shipped. I believe it. SCaLE Linux Expo Finalizes Schedules: The ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Save Windows XP: 30000 Ask Microsoft PC World India, India - 10 minutes ago The petition asks Microsoft not to discontinue Windows XP as planned on June 30, but to instead keep it available alongside the newer Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ Security Watch <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> MS08-001: Open Door for the Next Big Windows Worm? Security Watch, NY - Jan 17, 2008 Now, with its newly hardened Windows Vista operating system at the mercy of malicious hackers, the company is using the new Security Vulnerability Research ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> What Bugs Apple Fans Forbes, NY - 11 hours ago ... they've still got to have a copy of Windows somewhere on their Mac--and that means plunking down $200 and up for an edition of Windows Vista. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Some time ago I've reinstalled my Vista PC. All previous content was moved to nice "Windows.old" folder. It's cool. Folder was several gigs in size. It's ok. But! Today I've decided to clean some disk space and found what my old(!!!) profile in "Windows.old" folder takes about 5 gigs. And I've decided to remove it... Stupid fool... I was just bloody idiot! In result I've lost actual(!!!) settings for all apps (stored in AppData folder)!!! I've lost desktop icons, settings for Firefox, eMule, Azureus... :s But why?!?!? Why actual settings were stored/linked to "Windows.old" folder?!?!? I have 2 suspects: "links" and "UAC virtualization"... PS: Oh, MS... Believe me, I WILL buy a Mac as soon as I can afford it... I'm tired of Vista's "fun" and "jokes"... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Not all .NET developers like their MacBooks Geekzone, New Zealand - 17 minutes ago NET actually prefer to use a Mac portable for their dev machine, rather than a laptop running Windows. Me? I really like my Dell Inspiron 9400, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

An OS project that looks interesting (and, ambitious........) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

What are the steps to connect an external monitor to a notebook running Vista? The notebook is going from Mini DVI to DVI to the monitor. When I go into Control Panel > Display Settings, Vista doesn't recognize the second monitor. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Well, after a lot of discussions about our feature suggestions and what Vista should have been, what do you think is realistic we will see in 2009/2010 in the next version of Windows even if we don't known much about Seven and what has changed inside of Microsoft jet (beside of that Sinofsky is now the Windows-boss, a lot of people from the Office team are working on Seven, MinWin, multi-touch features...)? What I think is realistic: IE8 (or 8.5) with a download manager and thumbnail previews on tabs the same way like in the taskbar (maybe also released before Seven) IE running in a virtual machine/sandbox new version of Media Center build on a new framework (like the new Zune software) with the old Messenger back from XP's Media Center, movie rentals, IPTV, arcade games modular OS with a small kernel and individually selectable components like the "Server roles" in Server 2008, maybe where you only have to buy what you choose to install: Windows Mail for just 4,99! ;) (a little bit like what we have now with all the Vista versions and Anytime Upgrade) virtualisation of legacy Windows apps/games with maybe an integrated XP-core some WPF elements and animations all over the system, but not a complete WPF based shell new Sidebar using WPF, is resizable and loves Silverlight gadgets taskbar is really resizable, using WPF a new powerfull replacement for Flip 3D as a real taskbar alternative (heavy on the multi-touch support) system-wide multi-touch gestures less text in dialogs all control panels using the new style introduced with Vista no import font dialog :D and an improved ui quality (improved and more consistant look, less old icons, less glitches) What do you think? P.S. Sorry for my bad English... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds