Legal Browser Rendering? Wtf?

Posted on March 3, 2008
Filed Under /dev/null/ | 266 views |

Today Microsoft announced that IE 8 will render per standards compliance, which is great, but this sentence is just weird to my brain:

While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue.

Have we honestly created a world in which we might have to worry about HTML rendering being governed by law?

Does that strike anyone else as insane?

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