DISQUS

Hm, that's actually what Apple did with the Beta versions of Safaro for Windows as well. You could update to the latest Safari Beta and Quicktime as well as iTunes were checked to install as well, even though I didn't ever had them installed. So nothing new actually.

Besides, I don't think this is going to help Safari in any way.

I so knew this was going to come.

So after Netscape 4 and Netscape 7 which still creates headaches for webdesigners we now have another Version that will make webdesinger's life harder in 3 years and beyond.

What I think is the worst thing of all that they're still going to let people download NN 4 and all the other crappy versions of their browser.

Even if Mozilla came out of Netscape. It just should be forbidden to download any Netscape browser. This is worse than Microsoft!

I don't think anything like this will be standardized, as this is mostly a problem of Microsoft. In a recent IRC Chat Wilson said the opt-in will probably be a meta-tag. This doesn't seems optimal but shouldn't do any harm.

There was also the discussion that HTML5's doctype really should opt-in automatically. I hope this IE-future is just half as interesting as I currently think it is :)

They added a third mode. I've followed itnerviews, the HTML WG etc all along.

We are going to get a third rendering mode in IE8. But we will only be able to use it, when we opt-in. This can be concluded from Chris Wilson's statements over the last year. Remember, IE7 broke many IE6 site, this shall not happen with IE8. Thus a third rendering mode.

There's also the possibility that the HTML5-Doctype will be one of the opt-in keys to the "very standards mode".