I am not a fan of targeting browser versions. Nor am I a fan of the “opt-out” proposal. I am also unhappy about the idea about going back and adding a new meta element to every site I have done. It seems many others aren’t happy either. I’ve been collecting links for the last couple of days. Here is some articles and comments on the subject

• Compatibility and IE8
• Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8
• From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey
• The Internet Explorer lock-in
• Meta Madness
• Microsoft’s Version Targeting Proposal
• Code happy
• META HTTP-EQUIV=”X-BALL-CHAIN”
• Slipping The Ball And Chain
• End of line Internet Explorer
• Broken
• In defense of version targeting
• Perspective:  Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default
• Best Standards Support
• The versioning switch is not a browser detect
• Standards mode is the new quirks mode
• Has Internet Explorer Just Shot Itself in the Foot?
• Who loses out to x-ua-compatible?
• Quotes
• IE8 and the future of the web
• IE8 to include version targeting
• Mistakes, Sadness, Regret
• Versioning, Compatibility and Standards
• The great opt-out
• Bobbing Heads and the IE8 Meta Tag
• Microsoft koan
• opt-out version targeting is spam
• X-UA-Compatible: Moving past thoughts of the children