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- lumedia
As a result of better standards compliance, IE8 will break compatibility with web pages that were designed around the bugs and quirks of previous versions. To soften the impact of these compatibility issues, IE8 will enable web designers to turn off all breaking changes in IE8. There are three modes that IE8 can render, named, "Quirks," "Strict," and "Standard." When there is an old DOCTYPE or when there is no DOCTYPE, IE renders it like IE5 would (quirks mode). When a special meta element or its corresponding HTTP header is included in a web page, IE8 will render that page like IE7 would (strict mode). Users can switch between the three modes with a few clicks and then restarting Internet Explorer.[6]
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WTF. This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Microsoft and IE need to die.
Are any of you web people designing for IE 8? I have done some browser testing on something I am working on and "big surprise" it doesnt display correctly. Should I even care?
The website is targeted at lawyers who are all on XP running IE 6 or 7 but they will probably upgrade when 8 comes out.
- lumedia0
why the rejection?
Is it too long?
Am I speaking out of turn?
Am I just an asshole?
Dont leave me like this.
- emukid0
i would never reject you. ever.
- matt310
I FUCKING HATE IE - was doing some cross browser testing today and the type alone just renders like ass. Firefox 3 mac has some really nice type rendering,
font-face: helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: lighter;actually looks like helvetica light which is nice.
- omgitsacamera0
some guy in the library was yakking about how conforming to IE is like builders conforming to ADA stuff.
- kodap0
bury MS IE for once!!!! it's the intornets biggest nightmare ever
- airey0
if the site's for lawyers then why push the css/coding past what general browsers can accept?
IE wont be going away anytime soon (yes, that's difficult and saddening to write) so toughen up and make smarter choices about what boundaries you want to push in web.
just 2cents worth from a fellow sufferer who hates to see someone make themselves mad over shite that aint going to change.
- flashbender0
I'm sure there will be a way to force "strict" rendering so it will behave like IE7
- lumedia0
@airey
i'm not pushing any boundaries, I just have a little GIF divider between some menu items and IE triples the distance between the menu items.
It works fine with IE 6 and 7, so what the hell could they have changed that causes this? Maddening!
- ETM0
When stupid things like mystery spacing happen, its usually a default or inherited value. All browser have different defaults when margins/padding etc are not specific.
A CSS designers best friend is the global reset:
http://leftjustified.net/journal…
- rafalski0
Joel Spolsky argues IE8 is the first fully compliant browser and internet just isn't ready for it. In part because Standards themselves are badly documented.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/it…
- Stugoo0
am i missing the point or has anyone read this?
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive…
- modern0
fuck the enterprise and their lazy cunt admins, MS should stop pandering to their lazyness. OH NO IT WILL BREAK OUR INTRANET, maybe you should have got a better intranet in the first place...