Thanks Dave, I was excited when I learned that Microsoft was finally on board the CSS train with IE8. Although I still grind my teeth over the necessity to keep supporting IE6 and IE7 issues, at least I can now design for the defacto standards, and give my users a slightly less than exciting experience for the older browsers.
These tips will be incredibly helpful moving forward.
Net magazine the leading web magazine in the UK has started a campaign to get users to abandon the use of IE6. What is the mind set of Microsoft designers in that they must control how software should perform instead of letting the user have control?
If you're on XP, get a copy of Multiple IE and you can run any and all versions of IE from v3 to v6 as independent programs at the same time on the same machine. Doesn't work properly with Vista though. And doesn't get round the problem of running IE7 amd 8 on the same machine in the same OS.
Thanks Dave, finally some documentation on the compatibilty View, unhappily despite playing with headers, was not quite the cure-all promised. Got rid of the irritating button but css background details disappeared too. Not quite the fix i was looking for, looks like i missed a trick as IE8 installed.
Dom.
Great Article!
Thanks Dave, I was excited when I learned that Microsoft was finally on board the CSS train with IE8. Although I still grind my teeth over the necessity to keep supporting IE6 and IE7 issues, at least I can now design for the defacto standards, and give my users a slightly less than exciting experience for the older browsers.
These tips will be incredibly helpful moving forward.
Thanks again,
Marni Derr
IE8 CSS support
QuirksMode browser compatibility tables have in-depth info on IE8 standards support compared to other major browsers.
It truly is a better browser. Now, let's hope for a quicker adoption.
Lembit
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UX Design
Explorer
Net magazine the leading web magazine in the UK has started a campaign to get users to abandon the use of IE6. What is the mind set of Microsoft designers in that they must control how software should perform instead of letting the user have control?
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This is utterly fucked... sorry for the language
Multiple IE?
If you're on XP, get a copy of Multiple IE and you can run any and all versions of IE from v3 to v6 as independent programs at the same time on the same machine. Doesn't work properly with Vista though. And doesn't get round the problem of running IE7 amd 8 on the same machine in the same OS.
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
nearly not quite
Thanks Dave, finally some documentation on the compatibilty View, unhappily despite playing with headers, was not quite the cure-all promised. Got rid of the irritating button but css background details disappeared too. Not quite the fix i was looking for, looks like i missed a trick as IE8 installed.
Dom.