Readers of the venerable A List Apart will already have read about IE8’s new version targeting (and Eric Meyer’s accompanying opinion piece) — and the announcement has elicited quite a few heated reactions, collated here for your convenience:
Microsoft’s own announcement drew both positive and negative comments Jonathan Snook welcomes the change Anne van Kesteren is not a fan A Mozilla developer chimes in PPK defines the semantics An official Web Standards Project statement on their involvement Jeremy Keith thinks the idea is broken Andy Budd sees opportunities for other browser vendors Ethan Marcotte read it two weeks ago and still can’t decide Zeldman steps up to defend the idea John ‘jQuery’ Resig thinks the new tag is worthless Gareth Rushgrove tentatively approves of the change Dean Edwards posts some pertinent quotes from the WHATWG mailing list Roger Johansson doesn’t think he likes it Rachel Andrew sees it as a backwards step
I’ll update this list as more opinions roll in — and, of course, please share your own take on the topic in the comments.
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