IE8 Leading Efforts for CSS 2.1 Specifications

I read the following comment in a recent issue of the SitePoint Tech Times #206

…we’ve implemented every property in CSS 2.1 and are closing in on our goal of complete support for the CSS 2.1 specification by the time we release.

The quote was taken from Doug Stamper of Microsoft on the IEBlog. Bet you weren’t counting on that were you? The SitePoint editors didn’t think so either because they even stated that their readers were probably thinking of one of the other browsers instead of Internet Explorer 8.

What are we to do with this news? I know what I’m going to do. I’ll feel good for Microsoft. Give them kudos for trying to improve their product and deliver on the requests developers and designers have been asking for them to give users for quite some time.

On the other hand, I also know that most everyone else will find something else to pick at that Microsoft isn’t doing right or that they’re just lulling us into sleep before they screw us again.

File this in the can’t-win-for-losing category.