Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Jan 2008 22:38 UTC
There's been quite the noise on the internet that Microsoft would be supposedly forcing IE7 on customers via Windows Update. Ars dove into the issue, and hands out milk and cookies to everyone while explaining there's nothing to worry about. "They key to understanding what's happening in two weeks is WSUS. WSUS is not synonymous with Windows Update. WSUS is a management tool that works alongside Windows Update to allow IT admins to control how patches and updates are applied across a deployment. If you're an IT shop, run WSUS and have it configured to install update rollups, then you'll be getting IE7 that day. However, by default, WSUS is not set to automatically approve update roll-ups. Equally as important, users who aren't in tightly managed business environments (e.g., most users) will not wake up to find that Internet Explorer has been installed on their Windows XP SP2 systems without their say-so. Fret not: Microsoft isn't making you do it. They're not making anyone do it, not even WSUS users."
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Member since:2005-11-10
This is not about you. Majority of programmers use HTML. Certainly, if it's good enough for John Resig (Mozilla Corp., jQuery) it is good enough for me.
For the rest of us, there's no good reason to reject both suggested solutions:
1. Use HTML5's <!DOCTYPE html> and be done with it. It will set ALL major browsers to standards mode (including IE8). No meta tag required.
2. You can add that meta tag to set IE8 into standards mode.
Anyway, it will be some time before IE8 gets any significant market share.
Edited 2008-01-25 21:59 UTC
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2005-07-06
i code is in xhtml and im not going back to 1990s html code