Aaron Gustafson has written a post for A List Apart called Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 which is already courting some negatives in the discuss area.

The upshot is that IE7 “broke” some websites that were fine in IE6 all because of the DOCTYPE (mentioned in our podcast) and the practice of DOCTYPE switching.

Aaron has worked with team IE and they have come up with a method of using a <meta> tag to target the rendering engine that the upcoming IE8 should use.

My initial knee-jerk reaction is WTF! But now the Chai is kicking in I’ll make a point of going back and re-reading.

Go read the post for yourself and the comments. Then read Eric Meyer’s article, From Switches to Targets.

I’m not convinced this isn’t a baby step backwards but we’ll see.

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Tags: doctype, alist apart, ie8

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