Alan Gresley wrote: > http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad#comment-6499 > > All I want is a stand alone IE8 in super duper standard mode. We now > have to support: > > 1. The real IE5 (optional) 2. The real IE6 3. The real IE7 > > and one of the following. > > 4a. IE8 Standard mode 4b. IE7 Strict mode 4c. IE6 Mystery mode
The above may create problems for other browser-makers, unless they do as they've said they'll do - ignore the whole version targeting issue and improve standard-support while keeping _one_ Quirks mode for limited backward-compatibility. "Ignoring it" sounds like the most, if not only, sane approach. For us designers it's a matter of choice, and I personally will only have to support: 1: IE5.x (ever so slightly, or a bit more if I get well paid for it). 2: IE6 (Quirks mode forever, which secures 99% support of IE5 without additional efforts). 3: IE7 Standard mode (or whatever they call it). 4: IE8-final Standard (no meta) mode. The above doesn't affect my present strategy at all, and IE8 won't add all that much more work than any other version-upgrade of any browser. Either I've been very lucky, or I've just chosen a good strategy to begin with. Either way - it'll work. > Yes it does get crazy. I call it Meta Mode Madness! Rightly so, so - apart from giving the IE-team some feedback for those betas so they can improve things a bit, applying some damage-control when IE8-final is out is probably better than trying to make sense of the madness. > Gorge, just wait for a stand alone version to download (it will be > cheaper on bandwidth anyway). Once you perform the IE=mystery test or > toggle there no return from the madness. I'll call in the "damage-control team"[1] when the time is right - when IE8-final is isolated on its own workstation in my local network, and will otherwise stay out of the madness and just make sure the more sane browsers get what they deserve - the best. In the mean time I'll check here... <http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/ie8.html> ...to see what progress/regress is made. Less noise on that site :-) regards Georg [1] http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/molly_1_15.html -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
