Archive: January, 2008

“Don’t Break the Web” is a rule that the Internet Explorer development team has been applied to six major versions of IE over the past decade, with each of these versions seeing the application of this rule in a different way. It is a rule may appear ironic for some, given that IE has been the source of many problems for web developers since the wide-spread adoption of CSS, and with the more recent popularization of standards compliant web pages. It is also a rule that represents the balance that the IE development team attempts to find between backwards-compatibility and interoperability (web standards), and a new post on the IE Blog this morning shows that the IE8 development team may have found the way to achieve this balance.