Webmonkey is back from the grave.
It seems forever ago now, but back in the day webmonkey was the site that got me through most of my problems and queries to do with web design and development. Its great to see it back.
Looks like Microsoft is backflipping on the meta element in IE8. The most recent standards rendering will now be opt-out instead of opt-in. Fantastic news.
There’s a lot of noise being attacking, and in defense of, the announcement that Internet Explorer 8 will target different rendering engines using a <meta> tag in the header. Apparently this move is in order to avoid “breaking” the web when they release new browsers (a-la the introduction of IE7 last year).The proposal is that from Internet Explorer 8 onwards, pages will render as they should appear in IE7, unless you include the line of code
<meta HTTP-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
in the head of your document, in which case it will render using the new IE8 engine with better CSS support. This way sites won’t break when a new version of IE is released, but developers will still be able to use the new features should they wish. Essentially designers/developers will have to “opt-in” for the new rendering engine, but it won’t be used by default. Read More
