I designed this blog to have a place to occasionally contribute to discussions on front end web development or the Mac OS, rather than only commenting on other people’s blogs. I also wanted to re-familiarize myself with WordPress as a development platform, not having worked with it since early 2005, and being immersed in Drupal. I’ve found it a pleasure to work with so far. This is designed on top of the unstyled Theme framework Sandbox, which provides niceties like class selectors that I’m accustomed to having.
On the Edge
April 20, 2009 – 12:00 am
I’m choosing to use the IE=edge meta tag, as there is no reason for the sites I develop to be “accidentally” stuck in a time freeze of IE7, by an end user that either clicked the compatibility view button, or (more likely) opted in to global use of compatibility mode when installing.
Since my conditional comments target less than or equal to IE7 or 6, then anything fed to IE8 is code for real web browsers, and yes, IE8 seems to be mostly acting like one.
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