Byebye old IE code, hello W3C!

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

I just want to "inform" you: It is now nearly 100% sure that the next Internet Explorer 8 (and yes, most people still use it) is fully W3C compatible. At least CSS2.1 and XHTML.
Here is a (yet not completly finished) site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/DevelopersNew.htm
I don't want to say "hey, use it", but only inform you, that you should think of validating your sites in future or - when you develop them - always have a look on the "standards" (well, they aren't yet real ISO standards, but in fact they are now).
How to validate your site?
http://validator.w3.org/check/referer (X)HTML
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer (CSS)
What to do with the results?
- Fell happy if there is no error. 
- If there are many errors: Mostly there are only quite few ones in the code itself. Just read the result carefully, always compare it to your code, and - if you don't know what to do - read at http://www.selfhtml.org/ or similar pages how to do it.

Regards Michael

[DGEC]

IF it is really as good as they're claiming... a lot of people will have to change their "IF IE" code again

BUT all the better for us to have it actually working to standards, finally. Only took... how many years?

[Ruud]

It will take many more years.

I still have had customers looking at their brand new website for the first time with IE 5.5 on Win-Me!!

I think it will take a lot of time before we can skip all the IE specials. 

Ruud