It’s been quiet for a while here on Stupid IE since we’ve been busy doing some better things than worrying about IE and also because we are waiting for the next release of IE8 to see what surprises it yields.

But today, we have been hit with this piece, directly from the Microsoft Blog and we wanted to leave our two cents.

It seems that Microsoft didn’t have enough with creating their Meta Tag but now they’ve decided to create another one which does the same thing but in a different way or something in between. Yes, I don’t understand either but this is Microsoft we are talking about people, nothing is supposed to be understood.

“NOTE: The X-UA-Compatible tag and header override any existing DOCTYPE. Also, the mode specified by the page takes precedent over the HTTP header. For example, you could add the EmulateIE7 HTTP header to a site, and set specific pages to display in IE8 mode (by using the meta-tag with content=”IE8”).

Using the IE=EmulateIE7 compatibility tag is a simple way for users to continue their current experience when browsing your site until you can update with more standards-compliant content. Although adding this tag will prevent most display issues, you may also need to update your site to properly detect IE8. ”

So I can have the tag on the website but have another one on the pages and then this will prevent some, not all, of the issues until my content is more compliant???? So the fact that your browser was not compliant to begin with means I know have to do more work than before??

We are checking into a mental hospital pretty soon. Anyone care to join?