Internet Explorer 8

[tomkin]

Not true.  Microsoft test their programs "in house"

  The first update to IE8

   Probably the first of many

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This Compatibility View List update helps make Web sites that are designed for older browsers look better in Internet Explorer 8. When users install Internet Explorer 8, they will be given a choice about opting-in to a list of sites that should be displayed in Compatibility View. After you install this item, you may have to restart Internet Explorer  Details...

     Tomkin

[Nick29]

This is a list of sites which need the compatability view switched on, for use with the program.  It is not a program patch or update.  If web site owners wrote their code correctly, there would be no need for this list at all. 

[tomkin]

It is not a program patch or update

    I wonder why Microsoft call it an Update?

       Confusing or what?.

     When is an update not an update?

          Tomkin

[Koromo]

If web site owners wrote their code correctly, there would be no need for this list at all. 

Rubbish!  Web site owners have been forced to write 'incorrect' code for years to make their pages render correctly in Microsoft's various versions of IE.

Microsoft has, until now, used their own version of html coding and ignored the web standards which other browsers have tried to follow - not perfectly, but more closely.  Now that MS has had to come to the party because Opera, Firefox, etc. are taking their customers away, they face the massive task of asking webpage writers to stop writing for IE (compatibility mode), and write proper web standard code instead.

Yes, I am a Mac user, and yes I do write (some) html code, but don't try to imply that it's all the web site owners/writer's fault.

Koromo

[Nick29]

IE8 fully passes the Acid2 Test

[Koromo]

IE8 fully passes the Acid2 Test

Yes, it does     (better late than never)

K.

[Nick29]

IE8 fully passes the Acid2 Test

Yes, it does     (better late than never)

K.

Hardly late...... IE8 was the first IE to be specifically written to pass that test - IE7 doesn't, and wasn't written to.

Still, it means that a web site that doesn't display properly with IE8 is probably at fault itself.

[tomkin]

  I've used IE7 for years without a problem.

   Now I'm having problems viewing web sites

   with IE8.

Still, it means that a web site that doesn't display properly with IE8 is probably at fault itself.

     Am I worried? Of course not! It's obviously somebody else's fault.

    Tomkin.

                  (Think I'll switch to firefox.)

[GOODDOG]

i am following this thread? with great interest. could some of you experts please tell me what is "ubuntu" linux and i was under the impression  that firefox was a firewall.

looking forward to reading your replies.

 michael