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03.20.2009

IE8 is here.

Win­dows Inter­net Explorer 8 is here. This is the first launch of IE that I’ve been excited about in a long time. Why? With full sup­port for CSS 2.1, it’s now a standards-compliant browser. (It also sup­ports CSS 3.0 in a lim­ited capac­ity.) Sure, it’s now one more browser to account for, but if your site works prop­erly in newer ver­sions Fire­fox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, etc… chances are it will work in IE8. If you’re unsure of how to fix any issues your site might have in Inter­net Explorer 8, but it works fine in pre­vi­ous ver­sions, forc­ing legacy ren­der­ing is as easy as adding a meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

OR, on a per-site basis, add the HTTP header: X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

For more infor­ma­tion, please see: Stan­dards by Default: What Does it Mean?

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  1. Posted by brian on Saturday, March 21st, 2009.

    Well damn. I wish I had known about that meta tag for emu­lat­ing IE 7 sooner. Thanks for the tip anyway!