...that someone got it . Thanks, Hal - standards compliance and not breaking existing websites are, in fact, why I show up to work. BTW, I will be at Web Directions North 08 , MIX08 , and (this just in) SXSW08 .

...but IE8 now correctly renders the Acid2 smiley face in IE8 standards mode .

Golly, I love this job. Okay, before you read any further, go read the tagline of this blog. In case you're reading it through RSS, I'll paste it here: "This is the personal blog of Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform team at Microsoft (and ex-Group Program Manager)...

Dean Edwards asked me in a comment on the IEBlog what I personally thought of the ES4 proposal . ( 'You say that "Microsoft" think that the web is best served by the creation of a new language. Your name is at the bottom of this article. What do *you* think?' - I'll let the FUD comment bounce off...

Trying to stay ahead of the game, but as usual I'm not very good at publicizing what I'm doing. Next week, I will be a panelist on the panel "The Arrival of Web 2.0: The State of the Union on Browser Technology" at the Web 2.0 Expo O'Reilly conference, along with Brendan Eich of Mozilla, Chris Wetherell...

I can't believe I forgot to post this. If you're at SXSW, so am I. I was on Eric Meyer's panel "A Decade of Style" on Saturday morning, and even more exciting may be the "Browser Wars" panel at 10am on Tuesday morning, with Brendan Eich from Mozilla, Charles McCathie-Nevile from Opera, and myself...

Jon Udell called me up a week or two ago and asked me a bunch of questions about web history, IE and the HTML WG. I think it's actually broadly interesting, and for once I don't sound like a third grader on speed. Well, too much. Check it out .

Quick post - at the Ajax Experience conference, someone mentioned to me that IE was downloading background images multiple times if they were referenced in the stylesheets multiple times. I checked with the team, and they confirmed that they did address this problem in IE7, and it should be fixed (they...

…HA! Gotcha! I’ve been juggling multiple roles on the IE team for a while. With the release of IE7, I decided (with my management’s support, of course) to focus my energy on the design of the IE web developer platform as the lead platform architect, rather than managing the platform program management...