The webs wont break
If IE8 was going to dump its compatability modes, every web developer would know this way in advance of release, and would update the site accodingly, so how would this break most web sites?
This would also create a lot of work for web devs, which would help the economy, so how is it a bad thing?
Also, any future site maintenance or updates would be simplified as they would only need to be coded to the standards. This would make like so much easier for web devs.
You guys saying that it is good that microsoft is keeping the compatability modes are obviously not web devs, and don't understand how annoying it is to code for different version of IE. As users though, you would not be affected, as the only sites that would be broken are the ones no longer being maintained.
I see this as a step in the right direction towards full compliance to the standards. As long as IE9 drops the compatability modes and is standards compliant, then Microsoft has done the right thing with IE8, as this will give the web devs plenty of time to get their sites sorted out.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
