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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:14:44 +0000

I hear ya. I had to chuckle when I first heard that MS decided to create their own version of the W3 standard. I guess it was their way of forcing people to use their browser. The unfortunate thing was most webmasters and page creators fell for it, and coded for only IE. I know my step-son’s homeschooling program was like that last school year – they only allowed IE to access the online portals. This year, though, other browsers are usable. I guess too many parents complained.

Cheers!

By: eve

eve — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:22:08 +0000

That blast of action on Friday was soooo awesome! It was just too shor

By: Chris (admin)

Chris (admin) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:16:33 +0000

Haha. Oh yes I agree completely Mike… it’s Firefox or nothing for me as well. It’s just that I know there are some who only use IE so for those poor unfortunate souls, I hope they are able to get IE8.

It looks like the days of “websites coded specifically for IE” are coming to an end with IE8. Hooray!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:29:07 +0000

IE8?? Eww, yuck! Give me Mozilla’s FireFox any day, thanks. I only use IE if I absolutely HAVE to, such as a website that was coded specifically for IE. Thankfully, those sites are few and far between.

Even my site is coded for all browsers, though I only test on FireFox. And when WinXP finally sees its end of life happen, then no more windoze for me. I’ll be going to a linux variation, so FireFox will be it.

Cheers!

By: Chris (admin)

Chris (admin) — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:35:11 +0000

Ya, it is much better. I use Mac so have no reason to use it normally. I use it purely to test my websites to ensure they are compatible cross-platform and IE8 is the first browser from Microsoft, ever, to be fully standards compliant and renders the same as other browsers, so I’m a very happy camper.

Thus my encouragement for people to move to IE8 is really only a manifestation of my own laziness so that I only have to write the webstuff once and it should run the same for everyone! :)

By: tekwiz

tekwiz — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:29:00 +0000

So, you also like IE8? I grabbed the download within 1/2 hr of the release, & have been using it since. A quality product, for sure.
The first security hole has already been found, BTW. I wonder how long until the first patch follows? :P