Comments on: Joel Spolsky on the coming browser standards meltdown http://strom.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/joel-spolsky-on-the-coming-browser-standards-meltdown/ New and improved with just a hint of lemon Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:05:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jeff Garbers http://strom.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/joel-spolsky-on-the-coming-browser-standards-meltdown/#comment-71534 Jeff Garbers Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:29:05 +0000 http://strom.wordpress.com/?p=565#comment-71534 Maybe this is an overly simplistic solution to the problem, but: How about having IE8 default to standard behavior, but include a "This Looks Funny" button on the toolbar. Pressing the button would toggle IE through its various compatibility modes (perhaps there's more than one that might apply). IE would then keep track of the fact that the current page "looked funny" and should be rendered according to whatever mode it was on when the user stopped clicking "This Looks Funny." That button text might be too whimsical (not to mention -- would people click it while viewing a particularly humorous YouTube video?) -- but the idea might be worth kicking around. Maybe this is an overly simplistic solution to the problem, but: How about having IE8 default to standard behavior, but include a “This Looks Funny” button on the toolbar. Pressing the button would toggle IE through its various compatibility modes (perhaps there’s more than one that might apply). IE would then keep track of the fact that the current page “looked funny” and should be rendered according to whatever mode it was on when the user stopped clicking “This Looks Funny.”

That button text might be too whimsical (not to mention — would people click it while viewing a particularly humorous YouTube video?) — but the idea might be worth kicking around.

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