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A lot has been written about it on a lot of blogs, but as a standards aware front-end developer I just have to comment on the matter. Although pretty much everything has been said about it, both pro and con (mostly con).

For those of you who don’t know what it’s all about (I can’t imagine you missed it), I’ll sumarize it. On the IEBlog the IE development team announced how IE8 will handle backwards (and forwards) compatibility. Credit where credit is due, the IE development team has been doing a great job lately with IE8 even passing the Acid 2 test. But, only if you set the special <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> element. IE8 will render pages by default using the IE7 rendering engine, because MS doesn’t want to break websites with every new version of IE. Read more »