A possibly overzealous comment by Eric?

I was browsing the Guardian newspaper a couple of months ago (I meant to publish this post a couple of days after reading the article) and came across an article entitled, “Internet Explorer aims to embrace the web again“, so decided to take a closer look. Admittedly it was the first time I had read the Technology section of the Guardian, and considering the mainstream format that a lot of broadsheets have, was pleasantly surprised to find the article went into somewhat more depth than I had expect it would do.

As you can read if you visit the link, the article starts off by explaining what Acid2 is and the hype at Mix08 surrounding IE8. What I found particularly interesting in the article was a single comment from Eric Meyer; it reads, “CSS support in IE8 looks thus far to be very, very promising…”. He does actually mention that he’s “never had any inside track” from the IE guys, and granted, his comments did come before MS released a document outlining planned CSS support in the IE8 final release (which I talk more about in a recent post), but still…