IE8 Download Page Goes Live - New Features Revealed

[Eraserhead]

Anybody saying that it doesn't pass Acid2, you have to run it from the official webstandards.org website, not the acidtests.org web site.

Full explanation as to why here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/why-isn-t-ie8-passing-acid2.aspx

Ah, yep thats OK it works now, I thought the acidtests.org site was the new one for all the tests 😱.

 

[Nermal]

I've installed IE 8, and it does better, it gets 17/100 now. And I've updated the renderings. However in comparison the latest Webkit gets 89/100, so MS have a way to go yet.

It'll be interesting to see how far the released Safari 3.1 gets. The current beta gets to 76.

 

[Eraserhead]

It'll be interesting to see how far the released Safari 3.1 gets. The current beta gets to 76.

As the latest Webkit beta gets to 89, my guess is 100.

 

[clevin]

As the latest Webkit beta gets to 89, my guess is 100.

there is no beta for webkit, today's nightly of webkit is 90/100.

Safari 3.1 probably won't use latest webkit, so 100/100 is possible, but don't bet on it.

 

[Nermal]

I'm going off topic a bit...

I never thought to try 3.1 on Windows until now. It can FINALLY talk to our ISA server without crashing 😀

 

[angelneo]

I got burnt the last time when I downloaded and installed IE 7 beta (it basically screws up my machine). Now you guys make me feel the urge to download and test the new version.... 😛

 

[Nermal]

It's a developer release, Microsoft makes that very clear. I don't know whether you're a developer or not but it's certainly not intended for end-users. I'm running it on VMware so that it can't screw up my real system (which is still IE 6).

 

[Nermal]

Still no XHTML support 🙄

For the unaware: XHTML served as text/html goes through the SGML parser. IE8 still won't read it when served as application/xhtml+xml (I'm oversimplifying a bit but you get the idea). There's a nice little table here.

 

[jSunbeam]

Just remember that those quirks keep you in a job. If any old person off the street could write a website that would work perfectly on every browser then why would they need to pay you so much money.

I know you can argue that you make really complex and feature rich websites, but you still get to charge more than someone who can make complex and feature rich websites that can't get them to work on other browsers. 🙂

They aren't bugs, they are well designed money making "features" 🙂

Heh! Fair point. 😀