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If you're running the IE8 Beta, Microsoft has put out a new tool that can help them identify web pages with rendering problems in the new Standards mode. I'm not sure how they are going to address it internally, but hey, at least we can start going through all the Microsoft.com pages that need to be...

Microsoft! Live.com is totally broken in IE8. Which I find kind of odd, because I would have imagined that the Live.com team had access to the beta. At any rate, changing tabs doesn't work, the Start Orb is broken, and only 3 of the panels on my front page load data. Oops! I think we can say that this...

From Dean H. over on the IE Blog : One issue we heard repeatedly during the IE7 beta concerned sites that looked fine in IE6 but looked bad in IE7. The reason was that the sites had worked around IE6 issues with content that – when viewed with IE7’s improved Standards mode – looked...

"Don't misinterpret silence for inaction." That's what Dean Hachamovitch, GM of the IE Team, said in a blog post two weeks ago . Boy, he wasn't kidding. At first glance, this test seems simple. I think it actually offers a view into the subtle and complex world of web standards in a number of ways. Showing...

"...I mean, we're not -- there's not like some deep secret about what we're doing with IE." That's what Bill Gates said when asked about the status of IE8 at the uber-elite Mix-N-Mash event in Redmond. As Mary Jo pointed out , the next day Dean posted to the IE weblog that IE8 is currently in progress...