The next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will render pages so strictly according to web standards that a large number of pages optimized for it will appear broken. In a position n the official IE Blog, Platform Architect Chris Wilson stated that IE 8 would need to implement a system by which website designers can use HTML meta tags to instruct IE to render them using correct web standards or IE’s previous flawed standards. The proposed Meta tag would mean that web pages would have to specifically request the browser to render them in a “standards mode”, while pages without Meta tag would be rendered exactly the same way as IE 7 renders them.
