For years, developers have often complained that, comparatively, Microsoft does a poor job of adhering to <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/browsers">W3C Browser Standards</a>. There have been rumblings that Microsoft has taken a renewed interested in catching up with competitor browsers such as <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html">Mozilla's Firefox</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome/">Google's Chrome</a>.

If <a href="http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/">Microsoft's IE Testing Center</a> is any indication perhaps <a href="http://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=CxvO5XZybTJ_3NZSclQfrlqnqCebEyNYBztXhtBbH74IMCAAQASDHmPgFULzFzYH6_____wFgye7BjNikoBDIAQGqBBxP0JBaQmVTeqsRlwI_MxW8ne530ScCmrOX7nnfgAWQTg&amp;sig=AGiWqtz7KwcmZlSmY-CWAEH_kqZY1csRww&amp;adurl=http://pixel.quantserve.com/r%3Ba%3Dp-5eu58oSpL1cEs%3Blabels%3D_click.publisher.SEARCH%2BGoogle,_click.campaign.IE9DR,_click.placement.*http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/259400621/direct/01/&amp;rct=j&amp;q=ie9&amp;cad=rja">IE9</a> is paving the way for renewed commitment to the W3C standard.