Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread Ben Buchanan
crikey, that's some list. thanks Russ. It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible (the Zeldman lemur cracked me up completely) On the issue... it's something MS simply won't back down on no matter what any of us

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread dwain
code for standards compliant browsers and let ie fall where it may. dwain On 1/24/08, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: crikey, that's some list. thanks Russ. It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread John Faulds
It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible (the Zeldman lemur cracked me up completely) That's awesome! We can opt to save our energy for standards-based browsers and not bother learning new versions of IE.

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread Al Sparber
From: Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] crikey, that's some list. thanks Russ. On the issue... it's something MS simply won't back down on no matter what any of us think. So we may as well figure out how to deal with it. Discuss? :) Surely this list has some opinions... It's all about numbers.

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Ben Buchanan wrote: Implementation specifics aside (yes I still think it's spam), the version target feature offers us a chance to lock our sites to the most convenient version of IE. MS has invited us to ignore their newer products. We can opt to save our energy for standards-based browsers

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-23 Thread Terrence Wood
crikey, that's some list. thanks Russ. On 24/01/2008, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you been following the discussions on the IE8 and compatibility for the last couple of days? For those that haven't been following it (or have deliberately run away to hide), here are a few