23rd January 2008
If Web authors actually use this feature, and if IE doesn't keep losing market share, then eventually this will cause serious problems for IE's competitors — instead of just having to contend with reverse-engineering IE's quirks mode and making the specs compatible with IE's standards mode, the other browser vendors are going to have to reverse engineer every major IE browser version, and end up implementing these same bug modes themselves.
Recent articles
- We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything - 3rd October 2026
- OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog - 29th September 2026
- 2026 in LLMs (so far) - 27th September 2026