You don't have to modify every single HTML you publish. You can set the HTTP
header for HTML files on your server and off you go. Btw, you have to author
every single document, so is it really that bad to add a meta tag?
They don't want to default to IE8 rendering because of what happend with IE7.
It broke website. Not only that but IE is used so much outside the browser as
well. It's a platform. Intranet apps. HTA apps. Even help files uses the IE
engine. If IE8 defaulted to IE8 rendering, then you risk breaking ALL of that.
And who's going to get the heat for that? The developers! Us!
When I first heard of this new tag I didn't know what to think of it. But I'm
starting to like it more and more. What I've yet to hear from from people who
don't like the solution is a realistic alternative. Letting the sites break is
not an alternative.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Buchanan
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] This IE8 controversy
I don't think they're ignoring the "mess" they created at all..
You're right there. They're not ignoring the problem, it's just that a lot of
people don't agree with their solution.
Is
adding a meta tag really too much work to provide your users/visitors
the viewing experience they should have?
Consider it this way: is any other browser maker asking you to modify every
single HTML document you publish, just to fix a problem *they* created? ...and
not for the first time, given MS already expects us to load up our sites with
conditional comments and extra stylesheets...
It really wouldn't matter so much if they were making IE8 default to IE8,
then letting people set it back to IE7 if they actually need it. This way
around ticks people off for the same reason SPAM ticks them off - they didn't
ask for it!
cheers,
Ben
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