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. ;)