How to Make your site Internet Explorer 8 Compatible - Part 4 - Dev Tools & Versioning

Posted by admin on March 10th, 2008 at 12:52pm

Developer Tools
Internet Explorer 8 includes tools for Web developers to debug their sites efficiently from Internet Explorer.
Developers can immediately debug a site’s HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from within IE8, in stead of switching between IE and separate development environment.

Versioning and IE Modes
Versioning and rendering modes in IE8 allows it to remain compatible with current web content.
Now IE8 has three different Layout modes.
1) Quirks provides backwards compatibility with IE5.
2) IE7 Standards provides backwards compatibility with IE7 JavaScript/layout etc.
3) IE8 Standards includes latest features like CSS 2.1 compliant layout engine, DOM/HTML breaking changes etc.

Versioning and Cross-document Interaction
Internet Explorer 8 introduces the IE8 standards mode by default. This allows the Web designers to use the latest rendering features in IE8.
In addition to the layout changes, IE8 standards mode also affects the behavior of scripted APIs (DOM).

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.

Detailed Information & Example

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