It slipped through the cracks on my radar, but apparently the IE8 team has met with some web standards gurus and decided that in order to move forward with full standards compliance (and support the known quirks of IE6/7 for corporate intranets), a new "version targeting" system should be put in place. Other browser vendors are not amused. Should IE just give up?

There's a whole lot more commentary round-up over here. Highlights : John "JQuery" Resig sees too many problems, James Bennett gives an overview, Hixie thinks it's anti-competitive and toy lemurs act out the controversy.

See also the two follow-up posts from Mozilla developer Robert O'Callahan on why their team doesn't suffer the same issues.