[whatwg] <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

[Robert O'Rourke]

Christoph Päper wrote:
> Brenton Strine:
>> (...) IE8 'passes' the Acid2 test, but (...) won't render pages with 
>> the new standards-compatibility unless you explicitly tell it to with 
>> this meta tag:
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
>>
> Note that 'edge' is actually discouraged and authors should instead 
> provide version numbers they successfully tested their documents in. 
> (The list may get rather long and incomplete over time, but the QA 
> department can finally show off.)
>

<!--[if gte IE 8]>
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<![endif]-->

This is just ridiculous now. Why can't MS just use gecko and focus on 
their UI??