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By: a bulletproof idea » Blog Archive » IE 8 Causes A Stir

a bulletproof idea » Blog Archive » IE 8 Causes A Stir — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:16:21 +0000

[...] of web design. Eric Meyer and Johnathan Snook are some of those in the ‘yes’ camp with Rachel Andrew and John Resig firmly in the ‘No’ camp. There are one or two out there sitting on the [...]

By: IE8, Version Targeting, and the Ruckus it’s Causing - Monday By Noon

IE8, Version Targeting, and the Ruckus it’s Causing - Monday By Noon — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:05:23 +0000

[...] IE8 and the future of the web by Rachael Andrew [...]

By: Max Design - standards based web design, development and training » IE8 and versioning - very worrying developments

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:04:47 +0000

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By: Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » Will my site break in IE8?

Dave Woods - HTML, CSS, Web Design » Will my site break in IE8? — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:35:45 +0000

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By: Pixelbox » Versioning for HTML, or Microsoft saving face?

Pixelbox » Versioning for HTML, or Microsoft saving face? — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:10:29 +0000

[...] Ethan Marcotte Zeldman defends the idea John ‘jQuery’ Resig Gareth Rushgrove Roger Johansson Rachel Andrew Meta tags: Development There are no comments [...]

By: David Owens

David Owens — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:38:25 +0000

Finally, I believe this is a solution to a problem that was actually becoming less of a problem since IE7. It is a problem that is going away.

That is what I have assumed is happening. If you build your website today to work in the most standard compliant browsers, and IE8 is so standards compliant, it will work, while IE7 will continue to receive any “fixes” you have had to include (wrapped in lteIE7 conditional comments).
The huge leap forward from IE6 to IE7 means that most sites that will have broken already did. It is very unusual for me to need to add much to an IE7 stylesheet. I assume that an IE8 stylesheet will contain even less.

By: Douglas Greenshields

Douglas Greenshields — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:45:45 +0000

I’ve been dotting about various different discussions on the subject, mainly because it seems such an extraordinary idea but one that has gained something of a “star-studded” following, and this is the most succinct and even-handed reading of the issue I’ve seen. So thanks. I really hope Microsoft see the error of their ways, for their own sakes and everyone else’s – I share Andy Budd’s sense that this may be the beginning of the end of IE as a dominant browser.