Jon M. Zuck » IE8 http://wildwebweaving.com a celebration of languages, writing, and the Web Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:55:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Browser Hell, 2008 http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/04/08/browser-hell-2008/ http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/04/08/browser-hell-2008/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:52:03 +0000 Jon http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/04/08/browser-hell-2008/ This is a presentation I gave to the Web Standards and Usability Users Group meeting on April 8. The title is way too pessimistic. I should’ve changed it to “Browser Purgatory,” but that doesn’t really have the same je ne sais quoi pas.

]]> http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/04/08/browser-hell-2008/feed/ 0 Thank you, to the IE 8 team http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/03/05/thank-you-to-the-ie-8-team/ http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/03/05/thank-you-to-the-ie-8-team/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:22:03 +0000 Jon http://wildwebweaving.com/2008/03/05/thank-you-to-the-ie-8-team/ To anyone involved in designing with CSS and semantic HTML to support Web standards, Internet Explorer has been the constant thorn in our side. IE5, IE 5.5, IE6, and IE7 have been the seemingly endless source of a Microsoft-generated ocean of frustration:

  • deviant box model
  • DOCTYPE switching
  • no min- or max- widths or heights
  • no variable-opacity PNG support
  • no SVG support
  • inability to serve XHTML as application/XML

and the sad list could go on. Many of these faults have been addressed and corrected, but increased support has been incremental, over the last six or seven years. However, earlier this year, Microsoft announced that IE 8 passed the Acid 2 test, an important demonstration of supporting most key CSS properties. Yesterday, they made that good news quite a bit sweeter, by announcing that the default rendering mode for IE8 will be with their highest support of standards, which reversed a previous plan requiring designers to include special code in their pages to trigger IE8′s standards rendering mode.

See also Microsoft’s announcement.

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