Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Incompatability list will make you cry

So you are an IE loyalist who through fire and hell would stand by your trusty browser ’til the end.  Besides, it’ the corporate standard.  When was the last time you went into a big corporation, sat down and one of their computers and fired up Opera, Safari, FireFox?  Chances are it would be never.  One would assume that having a majority 67.55% would mean that your browser help up to the standards of the web.  If you thought that, you would be wrong.  Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has long eschewed the web standards instead focusing on whatever it is they focus on.  So it comes with some certain comedy that the list of incompatable websites on the latest RC1 build of IE 8 contains some pretty big name sites.  What sites exactly?  The list is right in side.

I’ll start off by saying that if you are interested in the full 2,400 long (and growing) list of incompatable sites stop on by Zdnet.  For the rest of you who just want to see a few of the sites continue on:

A *very* short list posted on Gizmodo from the article originally posted by Mary Jo Foley:

• 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
• youtube.com
• imdb.com
• thepiratebay.org
• dell.com
• netflix.com
• nytimes.com
• gizmodo.com 
• kotaku.com
• sony.com

Not exactly “obscure” websites we’re talking about.  All of the blacklisted sites must be run in “non web standards compliant mode”, read: “Normal IE mode”.  It really is comical and sad at the same time and just shows how being number 1 in the browser world has gone to their heads.  Unfortunately what came out of their heads was not a well built web browser.  Meh, they brought it upon themselves.  The lists of incompatable websites can is quite exhausting and for XP users can be found here, and for Vista users here.  Will the publicity of the continuation of poor web standards compliance bug Microsoft enough to finally change?  Probably not.  But in the mean time it will give most users a good laugh…and cry.

Source: Gizmodo, Jim Vernon *pic*