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IE8 will now render as IE8 by default | 0 Comments

Posted in Browsers, Web Standards on 4th March 2008, 9:18 am by

Good news! The IE team have decided to revert their decision on compatibility which would have meant IE8 would render sites with the IE7 engine if a ua-x-compatible meta tag isn’t defined. Sites will now render with the browser’s current rendering engine by default, so sites will be rendered as IE8 by default when IE8 is released.

This is good news as it shows that Microsoft are no longer looking to support the past. It’s a big deal for them to take this decision and I feel that this is a clear sign that they are supporting web-standards moving forward.

This is also a great result for the few people that stood-up and constructively criticised the initial announcement. Their voice was heard.

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Insert a tab character in vim when expand tabs is on|(0)

I have vim set-up to use spaces in place of tabs. Sometimes you need to use an actual tab e.g. editing a Makefile. Now whilst it’s possible to change settings so that tabs are used for specific files, a quick tip to remember is to simply type in insert mode:

Ctrl+v tab

That is Ctrl and “V” and hit the tab key, et voila you’ve entered an actual tab.

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

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