January 22, 2008

Meta Madness

John Resig goes on the offensive against the news of browser targeting.
“Wanna know how I can tell that no other browser vendor participated in the creation of the new meta X-UA-Compatible tag? Because it’s completely worthless - and in fact harmful - for any browser to implement!”

In defense of version targeting

Web icon, Jeffrey Zeldman, goes on the defensive with the announcement of version targeting in the upcoming IE browsers.
“By contrast, the many developers who don’t understand or care about web standards, and who only test their CSS and scripts in the latest version of IE, won’t opt in, so their stuff will render in IE8 [...]