"I was aware of the X-UA-Compatible thing, but have no intention of going down that route: I have no way of knowing whether my code is compatible with IE9 or not, so how can I decide which mode it should render in next year? (As you can all see, I'm not too sure whether it is compatible with IE8, and this page doesn't like previous versions much either.)" ---------------------------------
This was why I suggested using a value of IE=8 rather than edge, as discussed on ALA - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype There are drawbacks as Georg mentioned but it seems the safest option to me. We are supplying all of our sites with an http header from the server of IE=8, if we want to change a particular site to a different rendering mode (to get into quirks mode for example) we add the meta tag which overrides the http header. Seems to be working a treat and avoids compatibility view entirely. James ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
