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by agazso 6048 days ago
It is wishful thinking regarding that Microsoft has currently four (IE 6, 7, 8 and the compatibility mode) slightly different implementations, and this number will only increase with their development.

The real problem is that web standards of the past (made by W3C) were overly complicated and not practical, so the browser developers had to make engineering trade-offs to implement a subset of them. So in practical sense there is no such thing as standard compliance, and this is not something Microsoft can go with.