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IE 8 Sadly – Dead in the Water

Apr
5
2009

various trumpets

Well Internet Explorer 8 is out of Beta and has finally been released.   It didn’t meet the IE8 in 2008 proclamation that some where betting on.  But no matter at least it is here, better late than never, eh.

Yes it’s faster meaner, clean and generally  a better browser than IE7.   There is lots of fancy stuff I can’t use from a design view as other browsers don’t support it, but innovation is still good.  As a User Experience designer, it’s a nicer browser to work with.  It lines up and supports most of the standards, mind you I do suspect it was written to pass Acid 2 specifically and not o be complaint with all of the upcoming W3C guidelines.

Goodbye IE6

Oct
5
2008

For the last few months I have noted on average across my clients sites that IE6 has now slipped to below 40%.   Okay this is just a magical number.   But for me it has great significance.   This is the tipping point  for an aging browser on the decline.  At this point it goes from the pixel perfect section on the browser compliance matrix to the section major resemblance.  This is the grey zone between perfection and the old fall back graceful degradation.