Ik zit nog even de comments door te lezen op de msdn blog en blijkbaar lezen er developers mee die dingen mogen toezeggen:
quote:# re: Compatibility and IE8
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:54 AM by SvenGroot
How about this: give us standards mode by default for application/xhtml+xml documents?
quote:# re: Compatibility and IE8
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:03 PM by cwilso
@SvenGroot, @David Zülke: of course, for content that we don't have backward compatibility concerns for (a new DOCTYPE or MIME type, e.g.), we can automatically opt in.
quote:# re: Compatibility and IE8
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:03 PM by cwilso
Please DO NOT use "edge" for production web pages, UNLESS you have no IE-specific fixups or other code in the page at all.
quote:# re: Compatibility and IE8
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:36 PM by cwilso
@Alex: there's a registry key that can force on IE8 standards mode, yes. No recommended for average use, obviously. And no, we don't blow up to an enormous size.