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03.05.2008

More thoughts on the changes in IE8

UPDATE: IE8 Beta 1 is now avail­able for down­load. I’d rec­om­mend installing Vir­tual PC and then grab­bing the lat­est Inter­net Explorer Appli­ca­tion Com­pat­i­bil­ity VPC Image (Vir­tual Hard Disk Image for test­ing web­sites on IE on Win­dows XP SP2). That way you can con­duct browser test­ing in a more con­trolled envi­ron­ment, as opposed to erad­i­cat­ing your local install of IE6 or IE7…


Some peo­ple will say Microsoft caved; oth­ers, that they lis­tened to pub­lic opin­ion; some may even buy the company’s own expla­na­tion, which is that, given a company-wide reori­en­ta­tion away from pro­pri­etary winner-take-all com­pet­i­tive­ness and toward inter­op­er­abil­ity, “web stan­dards by default” takes prece­dence over “sup­port­ing all those badly made web­sites that were cre­ated specif­i­cally to work in IE.” Jef­frey Zeldman

Did Microsoft cave, or did it see the light? It’s hard to imag­ine a com­pany as large as Microsoft “get­ting it” all of a sud­den, but stranger things have hap­pened. Zeldman’s post gath­ers many of the argu­ments for and against IE8’s pro­posed ver­sion tar­get­ing. It’s def­i­nitely worth a read. I for one am glad that Microsoft has cho­sen to go the more dif­fi­cult route and sup­port stan­dards first.

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2 comments on “More thoughts on the changes in IE8”

  1. Posted by Matt on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008.

    Let me start out by say­ing that I hope Microsoft gets it but based on Microsoft’s past his­tory, I’m sure they have some rea­son up their sleeve for doing this.

    I heard that the Opera CEO had an inter­est­ing quote regard­ing IE 8. Essen­tially, he was say­ing that Microsoft is so dom­i­nant that they set the stan­dards and thus things are really going to be any different.

    I couldn’t find the direct quote but it makes sense.

  2. Posted by Matt on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008.

    Let me start out by say­ing that I hope Microsoft gets it but based on Microsoft’s past his­tory, I’m sure they have some rea­son up their sleeve for doing this.

    I heard that the Opera CEO had an inter­est­ing quote regard­ing IE 8. Essen­tially, he was say­ing that Microsoft is so dom­i­nant that they set the stan­dards and thus things are really going to be any different.

    I couldn’t find the direct quote but it makes sense.