Tag Archives: IE7

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.

Round One – We Blinked and the Corporate Sector Won

Jan
24
2008

Sewage Pump

It’s been a few days now since the release by Chris Wilson on the official Internet Explorer Blog and the subsequent follow up by Eric Meyer and Aaron Gustafson (as requested) showing support for and explaining in detail the introduction of the X-UA-Compatible Meta switch. Now the post to read here is the Microsoft one. That is primary to the whole deal, it explains somewhat why this was done.