[MTOS-dev] Declaring tested IE versions in sixapart-standard

[Anil Dash]

Agreed on holding off, but for different reasons. The reality is, MS
(especially the IE team) is held to a different standard, so even if
this proposal is the best of a bad set of choices, they might still get
beat up so bad they back down.

Supporting downlevel code when you're radically changing a rendering
engine is a hard thing to do, so I understand why they chose this ugly
compromise. And honestly, if you made a Greasemonkey plugin that did
cool things with microformats, everyone in the web standards community
would laud you, but if you branded it "smart tags", they might come out
with torches and pitchforks, even if it was the exact same thing.

The interesting thing here is that the audience for this is people who
*are* doing ugly hacks or making IE-specific code, who'll want to
specify that. If we follow web standards, it's very unlikely things will
break in the future. This is more a sort of insurance for people saying
"I used this ugly hack in IE6, and now it breaks in IE9! MS killed my
site!". Because they get a ton of abuse from that side of things, too.
(Think bank websites, or big intranet apps.)

Anil

-----Original Message-----
On 1/22/08, Su <hamletcomplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 3:51 PM, Niall Kennedy <niall at niallkennedy.com> wrote:
>
> >   Today Microsoft announced a new form of browser rendering in IE 8+
> > based on the presence of a meta element in your HTML head. This new
> >
> >   Thoughts? Objections?
>
> Wait and see. Do nothing now.
> This is just barely out and already proving HUGELY controversial.

+1

On the surface this sounds like MS trying to take an easy out of
making a solid standards compliant browser which is incredibly lame.

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