We could spend hours explaining why our sites broke, but wouldn’t it be better if they didn’t break in the first place?

A List Apart: Articles: Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8

Snook has something on it, too. Interesting to see how they were going to do it. I find the concept interesting (kind of like "freezing" your Rails version), but I wonder how much overhead it will cause browser vendors: will they have to keep old versions of the same rendering engine lying around, just in case?

Tags: ie8, meta, doctype, versioning

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