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Version Targeting and IE8 Followup
Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post). “In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting ‘Standards’ [...]
Version Targeting and IE8
Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine into standards mode by targeting a specific browser version, something that was previously done by using a valid DOCTYPE. A lot of people, including Jeremy Keith, think this is a [...]
Employ Meta-Refresh To Save Testing Time
One of the best CSS coding tips I’ve read in a long time actually has nothing to do with CSS. Jan Holzmann of Snippit.net wrote an excellent article about using the meta-refresh property to save time reloading browsers when you have to test your CSS in several browsers. It’s as simple as it sounds. Just add [...]
