# IE & version Targeting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-version-targeting/252389>\
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**Created:** [February 19, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-version-targeting/252389 "2008-02-19T18:51:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ie-version-targeting/252389/1 "2008-02-19T18:51:35Z")

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> **[They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They?](http://alistapart.com/article/theyshootbrowsers)**
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> Version targeting will allow Microsoft to reach new heights of standards compliance where CSS and (especially) scripting are concerned. But to benefit from it, developers must explicitly opt in. That’s just not right, says Jeremy Keith. And it’s...

Discuss!!

I think Microsoft should just build a PROPER browser, and make it a required upgrade for the entire windows-universe. Why do they insist on being different from everybody? Why do they insist on adding all these one-off "features _cough_hacks\*cough

Microsoft, in my opinion is in the middle of a slow and painful death