What on earth were the WSG thinking going along with Microsoft on this? If your site is compliant you must add the Meta tag. If your site is a heap of button pushing garbage then fine, as you were, just carry on developing junk.

This is the perfect time for Microsoft to admit the mess they’ve made, produce a fully compliant browser and give the garbage sites six months to bring their sites up to scratch or, add in a Meta tag to say they’re garbage, prior to the release of IE8.

If they don’t and the sites break then fine, they’re either forced to fix them or old, unloved, sites that haven’t been updated in years will finally disappear.

Obsolescence is a fact of life. Digital TV is nigh, analogue sets will no longer work. Betamax tapes have been consigned to the scrap heap of time. It’s about time Microsoft bit the bullet and followed suit but I suspect, that their corporate weight has sent the so called standardistas into a shirt tail tugging panic. Looks like it’s going to be down to the complying developers to shout and scream again.