This might be a bit heavy for only being the second post on our newly created blog but since everyone else and their lemur have already weighed in on the subject, I thought I’d step up as well.

First, some background for anyone that isn’t aware. Microsoft announced how IE8 would attempt to avoid the problems caused by the launch of IE7 which coincided with the publication of two articles on A List Apart: Aaron Gustafson’s explanation of the idea and Eric Meyer’s discussion of his personal reaction. Subsequently, some people’s heads exploded. I strongly suggest you read the articles (and their ensuing comments) to get appraised of the situation before continuing on here.

There seems to be a lot of backlash to the idea and yet I don’t find myself that upset or opposed. I can’t really figure out who it is that is so negatively affected. In order to make sure I wasn’t just missing something, I started to look at the stakeholders in this decision and how they would be impacted.

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