“Design Code” by the Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)

tiffany — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:50:05 +0000

I am incredibly impressed with this dude’s ability to rhyme about web standards. Not that his rhyming skills are hot, mind you, but the subject matter isn’t exactly the stuff of legendary hip-hop.

Internet Explorer 8 round-up

tiffany — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:07:17 +0000

My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it

UPDATES:

Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications: What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility.
Best Standards Support: Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests.
: Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for Internet Explorer.
Microsoft᾿s “Super Standards” Mode: Important Facts: Jeff Schiller offers the clearest explanation I’ve seen about the changes coming with IE8.
Mistakes, Sadness, Regret: Ian Hickson on IE8, HTML5 and Microsoft.
Big Questions On IE8′s Big Progress: Alex Russell has some questions about how Microsoft will implement conflicts between meta tags.
Wisdom and folly: IE8′s super standards mode cuts both ways: Peter Bright over at Ars Technica gives a rundown of how this new ‘super-standards’ mode will work in IE8
Meta Madness: What seems to have slipped past the Microsoft Task Force of WaSP (or maybe it didn’t and they’re just playing coy) is that by implementing this specific feature in any other browser immediately either: A) Reduces its market size of viable web pages that will upgrade to new versions of the browser or B) Forces new versions of the browser to bloat, including backwards support for old-style rendering. – John Ressig
Bobbing Heads and the IE8 Meta Tag: Shelley Powers blasts this IE announcement.
In defense of version targeting: Jeffrey Zeldman says: When I look at the scenarios of who is likely to do what where web standards and version targeting are concerned, the IE7 default for those who don’t opt in appears to be the correct design decision.
Versioning, Compatibility and Standards: The WebKit team says it won’t be joining this tag march.
Opt-out version targeting is spam: If they’ve included a DOCTYPE, they’ve declared they want to render to standards. If they did that in ignorance, it’s time they started earning their money instead of letting Dreamweaver do their jobs. — Ben Buchanan

It started this morning with Aaron Gustafson’s article on A List Apart announcing a new method of versioning HTML documents in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8. Reaction is coming in from around the web. A few notable posts are below. I’ll keep updating this post as I come across stuff.

Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8: Aaron Gustafson discusses Microsoft̵s latest effort to maintain web standards and also maintain backward compatibility.
Compatibility and IE8: Some background information relating to Microsoft’s decision.
Broken: Unless you explicitly declare that you want IE8 to behave as IE8, it will behave as IE7.Jeremy Keith
: Mozilla hacker Robert O’Callahan weighs in on why this is (almost certainly) a bad idea.
IE8 to include version targeting: Jonathan Snook likes the approach.
From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey: Eric Meyer argues that maybe version isn̵t such a bad thing.
Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8: Aaron Gustafson discusses Microsoft̵s latest effort to maintain web standards and also maintain backward compatibility.
The Internet Explorer lock-in: Anne van Kesteren is not a fan of this Microsoft initiative.

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“Design Code” by the Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper)

Internet Explorer 8 round-up