Comments on: Why version targeting is a bad idea

By: RIUM+

RIUM+ — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:16:14 +0000

Next question for you to ponder over - would it be better for them to do this and have a standards-compliant-ish version of IE at least available to some developers if they manually specify it, or would it be better for them to leave out the standards-compliant-ish IE8 engine and force even those who are willing to manually tag their pages to use IE7’s engine?

(disclaimer - Aside from needing to specify older rendering engines in the Riven Journals Restored, which I’ve already done in a few places, I will be eating razor blades before I use this tag just out of spite of IE. ;p )

By: Deb Johnson

Deb Johnson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:56:51 +0000

Not that I’m any “fan” of IE, god forbid (FF user all the way). But here’s a pro IE 8 article that does have *some* valid points to it http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
Not that they outweigh the negatives, mind you.

Great post, and my, 10 paras. Awesome, dude

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:17:27 +0000

I completely agree with you… When I first read about IE8’s so called “feature”, I thought exactly the same. (Although I probably wouldn’t be able to write 10 full paragraphs about it :P) This feature will certainly do more harm than good…

By: GermanShepherd

GermanShepherd — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:34:15 +0000

A post like this would have been better the first time… When people post things without reasons or explanations, it usually means they have none to begin with. My apologies.