Where did you appear from, Compatibility View?

Something very strange occured when I started viewing this site in the IE8 Candidate Release; for some reason, when I was moving from page to page, I sometimes managed to invoke Compatibility View. Thinking that this was just an issue with the CR, I didn’t bother investigating it. However this issue has crept up in at least one of the issues I’ve looked into, and less than two weeks ago, hidden in a post entitled, Compatibility View and “Smart Defaults”, we got clarificiation as to exactly what this behaviour is, and when we can expect it to affect us;

Upon visiting the W3C Supporters Program page it became fairly obvious that some companies (whose choice of keywords in link text are reminiscent of a spammed bulletin board) are wiling to pay upwards of $2500 to get a (good) bit of link juice from this PR 8 page.

I am however, surprised that Ian Jacobs or whoever owns the page would, first of all, allow so blatantly obvious generic keywords and, use a such a mix of capitalization and lowercase link text. Just an observation.

Nice to see a re-design finally.

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There’s been absolutely no public or internal (within Connect) message from MS regarding the release date, so I for one am going to be extremeley annoyed with them if this is the case, since myself and others are continuing to file bug reports. Lets hope our work and time hasn’t been wasted.

After several months without a public build, we’ve finally got to the RC1.

They’ve fixed around 8 of the 16 of the bugs (that I logged) that were present in the pre-RC1. A list of the bugs that were fixed between the pre-RC1 and this latest build are below:-

I personally don’t have an issue with Microsofts property prefix being left off the filter property; either way, they don’t validate so I don’t see it as an issue. If anything I would prefer it if they left the prefix off as this would mean we would could retain some level of backwards compatibility.

What’s funny though is that this property currently works without this prefix - check my test case.

I’ve been fairly busy over the past couple of days adding bugs/spec violations in IE8 pre-RC1 ‘Partner build’ to my IE8 Bugs page. I’ve found an additional six; four or so, I would deem fairly serious.

Seriously Google, what is going on?

It’s been around four months since they released the browser for Windows, but still no word (that I’ve heard, anyway) on release dates. Around the time of the Windows version release, I eagerly signed up to their mailing list so I can keep up to date with Mac version development - but still nothing

I’d like to think I’ve gained a fair bit of experience and knowledge of the way the guys at Microsoft like to deal with bugs and the like.

Recently, I’ve been noticing quite a few company TV adverts that don’t include their domain name; instead displaying ‘Search [keyword]‘ at the end of the ad to get their target audience to look on their site. To me, this strategy seems fairly risky; the majority of these adverts are time-limited and unless the SEOers involved have built up some good quality backlinks to the site (using relevant keywords in anchor text, and such), it’s going to be difficult for that site to get to the top spot - I would suggest that even second spot in the SEs for their most competitive keyword would count as a fail.