Microsoft’s IE 8 incompatibility list: 2,400 major sites (and counting)
In an effort to improve Web users’ compatibility experience, Microsoft added a new, user-selectable Compatibility List to the Release Candidate test version of IE 8 that the company released in January.
Microsoft describes the list — Version 1.0 of which includes 2,400 sites that don’t render properly in IE 8 (in other words, an “incompatibility list”) – as a tool designed to “make sure IE8 customers have a great experience with highly trafficked sites that have not yet fully accomodated IE8’s better implementation of web standards.” There is a downloadable list for IE testers using Vista and another version of the IE 8 list for XP users.
Microsoft officials said they used tester feedback to select which sites to include on the list. The list will be updated regularly, with the IE team removing sites that have become compatible with IE 8’s standards-mode default and adding new, problematic ones that are mentioned frequently by testers and customers, according to company officials.
Here is the current list of sites that will display automatically in non-standards mode if/when an IE 8 user decides to download and install the Compatibility View list. The list is not in alphabetical order; it is in the order in which Microsoft makes it available as an XML schema:
List of sites on zdnet
