On Jan 30, 2008 1:31 AM, Thomas Thomassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!
And then when IE9 comes out, what does it default to? The same people who built stuff that relied on IE6 bugs and broke in IE7 will build stuff that relies on IE8 bugs and breaks in IE9 (especially since IE8 will be the first version with any support for the HTML 5 drafts; like any first implementation of anything, there will be bugs). And so on into the future; do we get an X-IE9-Compatible and an X-IE10-Compatible, and an X-IE11-Compatible down the line to deal with that? > 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. Well, there are three groups here: 1. Standards-based developers who don't rely on browser bugs to make their stuff work. 2. Standards-based developers who do rely on browser bugs to make their stuff work. 3. Developers who don't use standards-based techniques at all. Group 1 doesn't need X-UA-Compatible because they don't have the "problem" it allegedly solves. Group 3 doesn't need X-UA-Compatible because they have quirks mode. Group 2 are the only ones who "need" it, but by accepting it they're giving up on the ability to use any new features down the road (since, to kick future IE versions into a more featureful standards mode, they'd have to stop relying on old bugs). So the solution is to make Group 2 stop existing, and all that's really needed is for browser vendors to do nothing special to cater to them; the simple market force of clients who want functioning web sites will sort things out all on its own by either giving Group 2 an incentive to change its ways, or putting them out of business. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
