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drhowarddrfine
03-03-2008, 10:36 PM
Obviously, due to legal issues and lawsuits from the EU, which they only touch on in this post (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/default.aspx), Microsoft will introduce IE8 later this year. The new browser from Microsoft that will do the best it can with web standards as default.

I can see the advertisements now. Introducing IE8!!! It does the best it can!!!
toicontien
03-05-2008, 10:37 AM
Let's start giving Microsoft some marketing slogan ideas. :)

Internet Explorer 8: It's about @#$%ing time.

Internet Explorer 8: Paving the way to the Present.

IE8: "New and improved! Now with greater standards compliance, speed and security"

Firefox, Opera, Safari, et al. "And theeeen..."

IE8: "Um. That's it."

Firefox, Opera, Safari, et al. "And theeeeeeeen..."

IE8: "No. Nothing more."

Firefox, Opera, Safari, et al. "And theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen..."

IE8: "NO 'AND THEN!' "
LeeU
03-05-2008, 03:48 PM
IE8: "This browser is VERY standards-compliant! (after all, we write all the standards ... don't we?)"
scragar
03-05-2008, 04:12 PM
IE8: "now as good as firefox 1.5"

although I doubt it would even be that good.
drhowarddrfine
03-05-2008, 04:19 PM
Downloaded the BETA which is available today. Tested four of my sites and it failed with the same bugs IE7 had. Navigation was misplaced or didn't work at all. Google maps were blown up to a huge size.
chazzy
03-05-2008, 07:21 PM
Downloaded the BETA which is available today. Tested four of my sites and it failed with the same bugs IE7 had. Navigation was misplaced or didn't work at all. Google maps were blown up to a huge size.

REally? I just dl'd it too... google maps looks the same on my system on both FF3B3 and IE8. Maybe it's your system?
drhowarddrfine
03-05-2008, 08:29 PM
I'm not talking about going to Google Maps web site. I'm talking about maps on my web site from Google. Google supplies the code. I just insert it. It works on all browsers but IE8. It's two web sites, actually. I've read others are having the same problem.
chazzy
03-05-2008, 08:39 PM
mind posting a link? I'd love to see these shenanigans myself.
NogDog
03-05-2008, 09:13 PM
Did you try updating your web page(s) to use whatever the stupid trick is you're supposed to use to tell IE8 to try to render pages in standards-mode?
felgall
03-05-2008, 09:31 PM
Did you try updating your web page(s) to use whatever the stupid trick is you're supposed to use to tell IE8 to try to render pages in standards-mode?

The trick now is to NOT update your page to include the meta tag unless you want to force IE8 to render the way IE7 does. Microsoft did a complete reversal on this just a few days ago.
NogDog
03-05-2008, 10:09 PM
The trick now is to NOT update your page to include the meta tag unless you want to force IE8 to render the way IE7 does. Microsoft did a complete reversal on this just a few days ago.
Thanks for the update. That's good news (in a relative way) . . . I think. :rolleyes:
stalebrew
03-05-2008, 11:22 PM
Here's the link to download IE8, if you dare.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx

This thing is BAD even for a beta. I find errors on almost every page I visit.

and P.S. If you have a stand alone IE6(XP), it will no longer function correctly after you install IE8beta1. Until you uninstall IE8 at least..