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