Using IE8 daily: a brief review

Moving forward

I'm a die hard Firefox user and supporter. I've tried all the others, including IE8. I won't stop using FF3 to move to IE8.

I take any valid opportunity to knock Microsoft for what they do and how they do things.

BUT

The bottom line for IE8: they've taken a MASSIVE step in the right direction. Welcome to the browser market, Microsoft - finally something to compete.
 
I still find the odd site that either renders incorrectly or is totally unusable and then I simply switch to another browser.

On the whole it works for me, but then browsers don't rule my life :)
 
My problem is that it opens the new tabs behind all the other tabs and not after the tab that I opened it from, can one correct that behaviour?
 
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supersunbird said:
My problem is that it opens the new tabs behind all the other tabs and not after the tab that I opened it from, can one correct that behaviour?
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This is one of the issues I had with IE8 as well. It also seemed to "recover" the tabs quite allot which forced me to downgrade back to IE7 again.

I'm hoping that in a months time or so Microsoft would have released an update to IE8 to fix some of these issues.
 
from a web developers point of view IE8 completely sucks, as it introduces yet another version of IE that renders somewhat but not fully standards compliantly. So when I design a site (one with a complex layout, not just a basic site) I have to make a CSS file for all standards compliant browser, firefox, safari, opera, chrome, etc... and then one for IE6, one for IE7 and yet another for IE8, all requiring hacking the right way to do it, so that these browsers will display code correctly, and because of the fact that IE does some really strange things, this can often be a very time consuming trial and error process. Never mind the headaches to run multiple versions of IE on one machine...

Don't complain then when your webdesign quote is more expensive than it used to be before IE8. If only nobody would use IE, sites would cost about half what it currently does to develop.
 
nelwa said:
from a web developers point of view IE8 completely sucks, as it introduces yet another version of IE that renders somewhat but not fully standards compliantly. So when I design a site (one with a complex layout, not just a basic site) I have to make a CSS file for all standards compliant browser, firefox, safari, opera, chrome, etc... and then one for IE6, one for IE7 and yet another for IE8, all requiring hacking the right way to do it, so that these browsers will display code correctly, and because of the fact that IE does some really strange things, this can often be a very time consuming trial and error process. Never mind the headaches to run multiple versions of IE on one machine...

Don't complain then when your webdesign quote is more expensive than it used to be before IE8. If only nobody would use IE, sites would cost about half what it currently does to develop.
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Interesting comment. What kind of things do you need to cater for?
 
Well lets see!!!

IE7 terrble
IE8 average
Firefox Excellent
Chrome Average requires more security
 
Opera Excellent +
I too have tried the latest offspring from MS.
One word: No.
Unlike others, I use Opera exclusively, so I have no other benchmark.

I have no technical knowledge or qualifications, so to speak, to give an indepth analysis, apart from the avarage "Jane's" point of view.

It started going downhill with V7 - someone once exlpained how sex was for the first time, after the natural birth of their first child:
"It felt like visiting a familiar room with all the furniture removed"

Now it feels like the same room with van Gogh paintings stuffed into unlit corners, the thermometer wired all wrong and unexpected appearances of warped mirrors when you least expect it...

Other than that, it works.

...but I do prefer my cosy comfy zone :)
 
IE8.. Nedbank internet banking says browers not supported. (although it seems to work).

With Bidorbuy it also seems to have problems when adding a new item for sale or even editing a exsiting item. The HTML editor does not come up with any info that has been listed.

So out with it until futher notice I guess..
It also seems to effect Opera somehow... :confused:
 
nelwa said:
from a web developers point of view IE8 completely sucks, as it introduces yet another version of IE that renders somewhat but not fully standards compliantly. So when I design a site (one with a complex layout, not just a basic site) I have to make a CSS file for all standards compliant browser, firefox, safari, opera, chrome, etc... and then one for IE6, one for IE7 and yet another for IE8, all requiring hacking the right way to do it, so that these browsers will display code correctly, and because of the fact that IE does some really strange things, this can often be a very time consuming trial and error process. Never mind the headaches to run multiple versions of IE on one machine...

Don't complain then when your webdesign quote is more expensive than it used to be before IE8. If only nobody would use IE, sites would cost about half what it currently does to develop.
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not net just that, on one asp .net page for some reason when ever i rendered a grid it jumps to 30% cpu usage on hover over one of the button template fields, where as Fire fox didn't do that.
 
neither IE8 or Chrome support 'pause' 'resume' download after computer comes out of sleep mode or has been turned off then on again, which is a pain especially if one is moving bewteen networks, Firefox lets you recommence yr download whatever the circumstances, if you download a lot then firefox is without rival I think, the flexibiliy etc w.r.t downloading makes it much better than chrome or IE8, security in Firefox is also way better...
 
nelwa said:
from a web developers point of view IE8 completely sucks, as it introduces yet another version of IE that renders somewhat but not fully standards compliantly. So when I design a site (one with a complex layout, not just a basic site) I have to make a CSS file for all standards compliant browser, firefox, safari, opera, chrome, etc... and then one for IE6, one for IE7 and yet another for IE8, all requiring hacking the right way to do it, so that these browsers will display code correctly, and because of the fact that IE does some really strange things, this can often be a very time consuming trial and error process. Never mind the headaches to run multiple versions of IE on one machine...

Don't complain then when your webdesign quote is more expensive than it used to be before IE8. If only nobody would use IE, sites would cost about half what it currently does to develop.
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You're beginning to see Microsoft's strategy?
 
nelwa said:
from a web developers point of view IE8 completely sucks, as it introduces yet another version of IE that renders somewhat but not fully standards compliantly. So when I design a site (one with a complex layout, not just a basic site) I have to make a CSS file for all standards compliant browser, firefox, safari, opera, chrome, etc... and then one for IE6, one for IE7 and yet another for IE8, all requiring hacking the right way to do it, so that these browsers will display code correctly, and because of the fact that IE does some really strange things, this can often be a very time consuming trial and error process. Never mind the headaches to run multiple versions of IE on one machine...

Don't complain then when your webdesign quote is more expensive than it used to be before IE8. If only nobody would use IE, sites would cost about half what it currently does to develop.
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Hmmm. not Entirely true.
#1: You only need to include a compatibility tag in your HTML which tell IE to render in IE7 mode.
#2: The stricter web compiance should basically eliminates IE from the cross browser issues.
#3: For the most part if scripting is your problem, then you should be using a layer like jQuery in any case which handles your cross browser scripting issues.
 
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