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A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy

This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft...

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ie8-super-standards-mode.ars/2

Note: at the smallest signs of a flame war, I will close the comments on this post. Ars has a good forum and comment system where your voice is much more likely to be heard and endlessly contradicted. ;)

Posted: Jan 25 2008, 12:43 PM by Bertrand Le Roy | with 6 comment(s) |
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Dave said:

As one who's company blocks users from upgrading from IE6 to IE7 because we don't want to pay to upgrade existing internal apps - this is great news.

Wish they would have thought of it sooner.

# January 25, 2008 5:11 PM

Kearns said:

I don't get it. Why have all of those different modes? It should just do the new standards mode and if old stuff breaks then yell at the crappy Web Devs/Designers that made your code. I was never caugh unawares, and I've coded pages for years that didn't break under IE7...

# January 25, 2008 7:12 PM

Jay Kimble said:

Bertrand Le Roy had a post over the weekend (actually Friday, but I missed it) about the new IE8 meta

# January 28, 2008 10:52 AM

Joe Chung said:

Ah, the Web browser version of DLL Hell.  Sometimes I wonder if we will ever learn.

# February 3, 2008 6:57 PM

Tales from the Evil Empire said:

I've said some time ago that I personally would have preferred if IE8 was in standard mode by default

# March 3, 2008 8:24 PM

ASP.NET Debugging said:

So after using IE8 for a while now, there are a few things that are useful for people to keep in mind. 

# April 2, 2008 11:12 PM