Posts Tagged ‘ie 8’

Getting Your Pages Ready for IE8

Posted by steve in browsers on May 5th, 2009

As IE 6 starts fading into the soft glow of the sunset in the distance we need to start looking ahead to IE 8 compatibility. Internet Explorer 8 was released a few weeks ago and according to the W3Schools.com its already climbed to 1.4% market share. There’s no doubt its going to gain traction and become one of the most used browsers on the planet. So what new quirks of IE8 are out there, what about our good friends quirks and standards mode, and what about Microsoft’s latest proprietary IE 8 features?

CSS Improvements

The day IE 8 came out we posted…

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IE8 Browser Showdown With Safari 4 and Firefox 3

Posted by steve in Featured, browsers on March 19th, 2009

IE8 is here! Some of you may be ignoring that exclamation mark thinking, “Great, now I have 3 IE’s to cross browser test”. Or do you? Since IE8 officially launched at 9am Pacific time this morning I spent the next 3 hours upgrading Vista with the 90 or so upgrades it asked me to do before I could finally install IE8. I then proceeded to ask myself that same question every web developer out there is thinking, “How big of a pain in the ass is this IE going to be”. So I did a few test and benchmarks just…

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