There is another possible outcome which is positive.
It's more likely (assuming they get the info about the meta-tag out
there) that new sites will be developed using this meta-tag and
standards-compliance. Eventually, the old sites will be replaced with
new ones built in this fashion. Then, when they finally just drop the
non-standards-compliance all together, fewer sites will break. They may
be hoping for that outcome.
Katrina wrote:
Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
Karl Lurman wrote:
I think the thing to remember here is that, over time, the older
browsers will be phased out.
Jokes aside. As the older browsers FINALLY become less important,
YEARS from now, they can eliminate the meta-tag altogether.
But the crappy intranet sites etc that are coded specifically to IE6
or IE7's quirks *won't* go away (as that's the whole reason why MS
are doing this), so no, the meta tag (and the associated rendering
engine) will stay. If they're freezing rendering unless you opt-in
because corporates won't update the sites now, what makes you think
that they will ever update the sites? Come IE9, the argument will be
the same: since IE8 rendered as IE7 by default, we can't now default
to standards in IE9 because it would break the sites that didn't have
to be updated last time around because of the switch...so, the switch
stays.
P
I agree. But eventually MS are going to get sick of maintaining a
rendering engine, I guess IE7 first, and then stop supporting it.
Then they will 'break' the web. All they will have done is delayed
'breaking' the web.
And because of the delay and the meta-tag, more developers will have
grown complacent and lazy (coding for just that rendering engine*),
and so the number of sites that will 'break' will have increased.
Kat
* who can blame them? It's the easy way out.
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