The longer I think about X-UA-Compatible, the more I think it's not really about "not breaking the web". I think it's about "not breaking big bad web apps".
While it's possible that Microsoft wants to be friends with standardistas, or at least make us shut up, they really don't want to be enemies with a much larger group - large web application vendors and administrators.
If you are in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth there's stuff coming up you should go to:
Update: let's add to the list... Web Directions has just announced Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra dates. No details precisely what the two new events will be, though. Anyway, details at Web Directions South: 2008.
So. There's been an idea. IE8 is going to pretend to be IE7 unless you explicitly ask it to be IE8. Sure, that makes... absolutely no sense.
[Or, When Minutiae Attack!]
Update 2011.10.17: a quick test in Firefox 6 and 7 suggests they've finally fixed this issue. With the suggestion that FF 3.6 will reach EOL in the near future, we might finally be able to say goodbye to this curious little problem.
There's a perennial question that pops up on email lists and from other developers. The question goes something like this:
"This page works fine in everything except Firefox and I can't tell why... it's showing an HTML comment as raw code..."
Just a quick note to let you know that Web Blast registration will be opening today (Monday 26th). Web Blast is endorsed by Geeks on the Grass - hey, we don't need to go outside every time :)
For any Brisbanites reading this... BarCamp is heading to Brisvegas on the 24th - yep, vote in the morning and barcamp the rest of the day! BarCamp wiki / BarCampBrisbane. Head on over and RSVP for BarCampBrisbane1.
There are still some sponsorship slots available too, if you run a web business in Brisbane please consider investing a few sponsorship dollars. Add your contact details under the sponsor section if you're interested.
[Just to clarify, I'm not an unorganiser and sadly won't be there myself. All I can do is recommend that you go ;)]
Two quick bits of self-promotion...