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On Feb 19, 2008 2:18 PM, Craig Francis <craig at craigfrancis.co.uk> wrote:
> Rather than using a tag to specify which version of a rendering engine
> to use, why not use the date when the website/page was built?
>
> So, instead of using:
>
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8;FF=3;OtherUA=4" />
>
> We could use:
>
> <meta http-equiv="content-created" content="2008-02-19" />
>
> Then the browser can work out which rendering engine was in use at the
> time.
>
> For for example, the above tag would use the IE7 rendering engine.

There are too many assumptions present in that idea for it to work, I think.

Tim