[Building Sakai] IE 8

[Zach A. Thomas]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Sean Keesler wrote:

> Funny isn't it?
> The new value of IE will be its backwards compatibility with poorly
> constructed pages that rendered well in previous lousy IE versions.
>
> Round and round....
>
> ---Sean

Here's an excellent article by Joel Spolsky about why browser  
developers may not want to be idealists when it comes to Web standards:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

>> As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual,  
>> the pragmatists are right in practice. The flames will continue for  
>> years. This debate precisely splits the world in two. If you have a  
>> way to buy stock in Internet flame wars, now would be a good time  
>> to do that.

cheers,
Zach