The uproar over IE 8 and version targeting may be over—according to 456 Berea Street "Microsoft has reversed its decision to make IE8 behave like IE7 unless specifically requested."

It seems that Microsoft actually responded to developer outcry and reversed its earlier decision—now, to get IE8 to render as IE 7, one must opt in using version targeting. Wow!

If you're not sure what this is all about, you're in the New York area, and you want to find out, come to my 27 March 2008 presentation on version targeting and IE 8 (plug, plug!).