On Jan 23, 2008 9:32 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Jan 23, 2008 9:47 PM, Rowan Wigginton <<a href="mailto:rowanw@aspedia.net" target="_blank">rowanw@aspedia.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Do you think the changes announced [1] by Microsoft could have a<br>significant impact on Drupal's (or any CMS's) progress?<br><br>[1] <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx" target="_blank">
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/01/21/compatibility-and-ie8.aspx</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>IE8 has several modes. By default, it behaves like IE6/IE7 (Quirks).<br>For one to make a site standards compliant, for IE8, we have to include
<br>a proprietary meta tag.<br><br>The reason Microsoft is doing that, is not to break the many pages people<br>wrote for its defective browsers. So, it makes "standard" behavior an opt-in<br>thing.<br><br>See details here (specially in comments market +4 or more):
<br><br><a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/22/1837244" target="_blank">http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/22/1837244</a><br><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/23/1740228" target="_blank">
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/23/1740228
</a><br><br>For core, I don't see a reason for any change. <br clear="all"><br>Your theme can add that tag, conditionally depending on what browser it detects.<br>There is the nodewords module which can add metas, but not sure if it can do it
<br>conditionally. There used to be a module for browser detection too.<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br><a href="http://2bits.com" target="_blank">
http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
</font></blockquote></div><br>Am I correct in believing that other browsers choose the display mode based on the DOCTYPE?<br><br>I'm not a decision-maker in this group, but heartily against any IE-specific changes in Drupal personally.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tony Yarusso<br><a href="http://tonyyarusso.com/">http://tonyyarusso.com/</a>