After reading through a lot of blogs on the issue I feel more and more like it’s a really, really bad idea.
Let MS implement it to help developers from redoing things that worked in … IE7? Or was it IE6 that was the one that “worked”? Or IE8?
Let them bloat their browser with rendering engines.
And they don’t have problem of catering other OS’s and such.
More on the topic:
- META HTTP-EQUIV=’X-BALL-CHAIN’
- Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8
- From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey
- Broken
- Standards mode is the new quirks mode
I’m sure there are hundreds and thousands more but I can’t be bothered to read them all.
P.S.
By the way, this page is:
«meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”WEBKIT=523.13-WinXP-SP2;GECKO=1.8.1.11-WinXP-SP2;OPERA=9.25-8827-WinXP-SP2” /»
Do you want a list of installed plugins as well??
D.S.