Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-08 Thread Bruno Fassino
Alex Robinson wrote: 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. div#parsing { ... background: #ffcc00; backg\round: #006633; ... Real IE5 colours the div yellow, emulated IE5 gets carried away and repaints it green. ... So it looks

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:50:06 + Alex Robinson wrote: http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not

[css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Can someone confirm that the results

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Peter-Paul Koch
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/ie8/xua In a nutshell, IE8's emulation of IE6 and IE5 does not appear to be off to a flying start. IE8 cannot emulate IE6, only IE5 and 7. 1. Box model not honoured when targeting IE6 and in standards mode 2. Parsing errors not replicated when

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
IE8 cannot emulate IE6, only IE5 and 7. WTF? So IE=6 is actually the same as IE=5. Genius. Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? 2. Parsing errors not replicated when targeting IE5. Which parsing errors exactly? The IE

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Thierry Koblentz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alex Robinson Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:50 PM To: Peter-Paul Koch Cc: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Peter-Paul Koch
IE8 cannot emulate IE6, only IE5 and 7. WTF? So IE=6 is actually the same as IE=5. Genius. Yup. In fact, I argued for the inclusion of IE=6 for consistency's sake. It pointing to IE5 is not perfect, but better than having something really weird happen when you use that value. Of course,

Re: [css-d] X-UA-Compatible - discrepancies between targeted behaviour in IE8 and actual behaviour

2008-03-07 Thread Alex Robinson
Of course, I believe you, but I'm having difficulty tracking down where Microsoft say this. Any pointers? Not yet, but I'm 100% certain this is the case. Ah, ok. I see the answer in liorean's post. In the white paper / technology overview