Sometimes you get what you ask for. For years, Web developers, standards advocates, technology enthusiasts and others have been asking–no, begging–Microsoft to ship a standards compliant version of its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. Doing so would free Web site owners from having to worry about cross-browser differences, though given the millions of intranet and Internet sites developed solely for classic (read: Pre-IE 7) versions of its browser, such a thing would surely bring with it compatibility issues.
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