echo "hey, it works" > /dev/null

Therefore I recommend not including the meta tag, or, if you are forced to include it, making sure it says "IE=7", even once IE8 ships. This seems to me to be the best way to show your support for an open, interoperable Web on the long term.

• Hixie's Natural Log: Mistakes, Sadness, Regret

IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.

• IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone

There's recently been a lot of noise about a return to the browser wars (Alex Russell, Jeff Croft, Stuart Langridge, James Bennett). The point being that standards take eons to complete and standards bodies aren't the right people to be inventing cool stuff for us to use on the web, it's us and the browser makers that should be creating the cool stuff for the standards bodies to codify. Ok, that all sounds great (albeit an incredible simplification of a multifaceted issue). So, let's go out and push that envelope.

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To get a better future, not only do we need a return to “the browser wars”, we need to applaud and use the hell out of “non-standard” features until such time as there’s a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting that they are somehow “bad” is to work against your own self-interest.

• Alex Russell (via)

During the voting process the reputation of ISO as a dependable technical standardization organization was questioned. For example, in Sweden a Microsoft representative was caught offering to recompense partners for voting yes to OOXML. Also a sudden interest from countries like Ivory Coast to the OOXML issue has been found suspicious.We studied the relation between the corruption level and voting behaviours of the countries. We found that more corrupted the country is, the more likely it was to vote for the unreserved acceptance of the OOXML standard proposal.

• Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format | ...

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