Breaking IE8 news
In an amazing (and unexpected) about face, the IE team has reversed its previous decision on how to implement standards in the next version of Internet Explorer. I was one of many in the community who decried the original decision as backward thinking and just plain wrong, so I'm very pleasantly surprised that they listened to the community. At least I hope that's what they did, although there are various vague rumblings of new interoperability initiatives connected with some EU issues and some other reasons listed. No matter why they did it, making a decision to go full speed ahead with standards will be a boon to the web development community, although there are obviously still a lot of legacy browsers to support. At least we won't have to program for IE8 quirks in 2012 (hopefully).