Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8.
Aaron Gustafson on the merits of the “doctype switcher” feature of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8:
For many years, we designers and developers have been yearning for a way to reliably deploy our websites. In addition to the headaches of writing cross-platform styles and scripts, we’ve had to deal with the fallout from new browser releases that inevitably broke something we couldn’t possibly have anticipated. It’s never fun explaining the cause of an unexpected break to our clients, bosses, and users. But with IE8’s introduction of version targeting, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I, for one, hope other browser vendors join Microsoft in implementing this functionality.
Not everyone is in favour of the idea though, and some are suggesting this is a return to the (bad old) days of browser sniffing.
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