Posts tagged web standards

Got a meta in a heada’ — supporting standards and welcoming IEn where n = 1…∞

January 25th • No Comments • Under: Sidenotes • Tags:

So instead of writing another post about how good or bad the proposed IE’s meta tag is, I actually added it to the <head>. Some say — you don’t have to, if using HTML5, while I say — do IE6 and IE7 know what <progress> is?

IE8 Version Targeting — Understanding and Discussing the Arguments

January 23rd • No Comments • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags:

Illustration: Prefered Browser Version Definition (BROVER) — do we need it? In defense of version targeting is a follow-up article by Jeffrey Zeldman to his previous post and the topic of browser version targeting feature planned for the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8. His arguments (in favor of version targeting) might seem to be valid at first, but they are not enough in comparison to those who are against the version targeting.

Let’s start with an example (dates and browser versions are made up and are not important to illustrate the point). I made a website a two years ago (in 2006) and followed the W3C standards which resulted in a perfect content rendering in most of the standards aware browsers. Read more »

Browser Version Targeting vs. the Web Standards

January 23rd • 1 Comment • Under: Understanding Web, Web Critique • Tags: , ,

Illustration: Note from the IE Team and Friends — from Web Standards to Browser Standards. The following articles in the latest issue of the A List Apart magazine explain the necessity of browser targeting with the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8, which is expected to be the most standards aware browser from Microsoft to date.

To me the idea of browser targeting seems absolutely absurd, and reasons for that are so many that it will require another post to explain them all in detail. Here are just a few. Read more »

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