[development] What does IE8 mean for Drupal?

[Adrian Simmons]

Victor Kane wrote:
> I think that the need to
> debate what Eric Meyer, certainly someone on the forefront of CSS
> standards use, has to say on the subject is hardly getting suckered
> into something.
I was trying to say the opposite - just because Eric says it doesn't mean 
it's not up for debate - I think we actually agree :)

Besides I was being a bit harsh on Eric, he'd like the default to be 
'latest' too, but seems to think Microsoft have no choice:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/01/24/almost-target/

> (I would be strongly against
> leaving this to a theme level, since it is a royal PITA to have to
> redo settings while changing themes).
Good point. I guess a contrib module could inject the relevant meta though, 
and be configurable too. But it might need to default to 'off' because you 
can add an http header to the server instead of the meta.

I still hope Microsoft will change the default to standards mode, and this 
will all be moot. Time will tell.

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