Was reading Joel.  Very interesting read about development and stuff of that ilk.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

It got me to start wondering though…
If the problem is that a lot of sites which are reading that you are using Internet Explorer and so need to have a bunch of hacks put into place but the new Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t need the hacks…

Why isn’t the solution just to have Internet Explorer 8 not show up as IE?
I mean…isn’t it interesting that browser types right now have all sorts of random things in them? (Mozilla etc etc etc)

If all the websites of the world consider IE8 to be a brand new browser (or one of the small players), the majority of websites that used to break will continue, but at least there aren’t all these random IE5,6,7 hacks getting in the way of IE8?

Obviously the answer can’t be that simple…I just wonder why not?