So it turns out the most recent IE8 beta has a list of websites that do not use the new “Standards Mode” and instead fall back to the old rendering engine. The list of sites is quite amusing.
Mary Jo Foley posted what looks like the entire list of broken sites, but here are some of the more ridiculous sites that don’t display properly in IE8, and require it to render them old school style (aka not web standards compliant). Here are some of the more laughable ones.
microsoft.com
google.com
yahoo.com
cctv.com
msn.com.cn
live.com (a Microsoft site)
wikipedia.org
flickr.com
wordpress.com
adobe.com
facebook.com
apple.com
Apparently even their own site can not be rendered in “Standards Mode,” what a hoot!
