Comments on: Web Standards and IE 8 http://somadesign.ca/2008/web-standards-and-ie-8/ Winnipeg Web Design · WordPress Development · Print Design Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:09:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Matt http://somadesign.ca/2008/web-standards-and-ie-8/#comment-16 Matt Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:07:06 +0000 http://somadesign.ca/blog/web-standards/web-standards-and-ie-8/#comment-16 @Víctor: I don't like it either. But I'm willing to put up with it if it produces a better, more standards-compliant rendering engine in IE 8. Zeldman does make <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2008/01/22/in-defense-of-version-targeting/" rel="nofollow">a good point</a> that it's standardistas such as us who will ensure that our sites are using the latest and greatest. While this does have the unfortunate side-effect that non-standards-based developers can carry on their merry way, I think that they'll continue to go the way of the dinosaur in the face of the higher quality websites being built by those pushing web standards. I mean, they're just going to be stuck using the same old crappy rendering engine while we pump out beautiful, agile sites. In the end, I think that this almost turns it into a competitive advantage for standards-based design. @Víctor: I don’t like it either. But I’m willing to put up with it if it produces a better, more standards-compliant rendering engine in IE 8. Zeldman does make a good point that it’s standardistas such as us who will ensure that our sites are using the latest and greatest.

While this does have the unfortunate side-effect that non-standards-based developers can carry on their merry way, I think that they’ll continue to go the way of the dinosaur in the face of the higher quality websites being built by those pushing web standards. I mean, they’re just going to be stuck using the same old crappy rendering engine while we pump out beautiful, agile sites.

In the end, I think that this almost turns it into a competitive advantage for standards-based design.

]]> By: Víctor http://somadesign.ca/2008/web-standards-and-ie-8/#comment-15 Víctor Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:30:41 +0000 http://somadesign.ca/blog/web-standards/web-standards-and-ie-8/#comment-15 Version targeting isn't bad. What is bad is not having the lastest rendering as the deafult, wich is a very mediocre attitude from Microsoft, and a step back into making a better web. Version targeting isn’t bad. What is bad is not having the lastest rendering as the deafult, wich is a very mediocre attitude from Microsoft, and a step back into making a better web.

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