IE8 - so now it can handle tables in CSS

[Duer 157099]

I'm actually just finally learning CSS, and after building a website, during which I was frustrated with some of the cumbersome approaches (in the past, in the old days, I used tables in HTML) - I wasn't sure why I was frustrated or what the problem was, I just knew that something wasn't right, and that it mostly had to do with having to keep IE in mind while coding (it's always one or another browser that just wants to be different).

Anyway, so I get this book from the library about CSS and it's telling me how in IE8 there will FINALLY be support for table tags in CSS - something all other major browsers already support (and that makes a helluva lot of sense to do)

And then I check and see that IE8 was recently released. So web designers everywhere should be celebrating, right?

I use Firefox for everything, so if I hadn't read that book I never would have even known about this, lol.

[paparush]

1. What I love about IE 8 is the list of 3100 websites that it won't render correctly.

Among those on the list: Microsoft.com

IE8 is shipping with the IE7 render engine too so that when an IE8 user browses to one of those 3100 sites, IE8 will render the page using the IE7 engine.

Lovely.

Standards people. Standards.

[MyNameGoesHere]

2. hey i love that number 3100.

Care to share where you found that gem? And what is wrong with IE8 rendering on microsoft.com? I just can't see anything wrong but i am sure an expert like you must know something i missed.