One step forward, two steps back
January 22nd, 2008 by Leons PetrazickisAfter an internal build of Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test, they’ve announced that the new engine will only be used for sites with a special, opt-in meta tag:
<!– IE8 engine –>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
<!– latest engine –>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
<!– latest engine –>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
It can also be triggered from the server via an HTTP header:
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8;
Firefox is unlikely to follow suit.
In other news, John Resig has done some testing on sub-pixel rounding across browsers.
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