Internet Explorer 8 Day

[Saint_Michael 3]

Well, Internet Explorer 8 has gone gold and so far I am of mixed opinions of Internet Explorer 8 and the reason for that is on my first start up it took darn near forever to get it going and this was after it was installed and rebooted. Of course, what was really shocking was the Acid tests and that Internet Explorer 8 passed the first two with flying colors, however when it came to Acid Test 3, not only did it score low but it crashed on that test. As for the score for IE8 it was pitiful 12 because it would crash on 13/100 but at least I got to test out the tab recovery feature they added, but it failed on me once like out 10 times I was trying to why it was crashing and junk.

 

As for the compatibility mode, the automaticness of it didn't really happen all that much, but I doubt I am visiting the right site, but I will say that if your a wordpress user, IE8 does get funky and when you go to add a image in a post it switches to compatibility mode. Correction, my site went into compatibility mode, of course I thought about changing the design anyways to my old site, even though I don't use it as much since I gone blog awhile ago. But lets talk security, if you check out the first link in the sources, they mention that IE8 was cracked just like that, not by new stuff but tactics that have been used before, and not only that one hacker was able to crack Safari, IE8 and Firefox in one day at this convention.

 

So as security for this new browser is concerned, forget about it, Microsoft didn't much if people where able to get into this browser so fast with either old hacks or new ones. Either way, at least we know that there will be a lot of updates this year and I had mention that Internet Explorer 8 will top at least 30 updates this year alone.

 

I know I wanted to get out of Internet Internet Explorer 7 as soon as possible because now I can design and fix websites without havint to do all those patches and quick fixes and junk.

 

 

SOURCES

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161533/ie8_browser.html

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/ie_8_released/

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/161532/internet_explorer_8_browser_review.html

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/19/ie_8_download_day/

 

http://www.zdnet.com/topic/security/?p=2934

 

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

[Quatrux 4]

I installed IE8 today on my system ans I can say it's quite good, even though I won't browse with it, now the only problem I am having is that I would really want to be able to use IE6, IE7 and IE8 separately on Vista for layouts and designs testings, on XP I used to use MultipleIE, but on Vista it seems that nothing stable yet to do this

[eddyruiz 0]

New technology is still exciting. This best part of this program is that its free. As far as I know, all browsers are free. This is probably why there are alway bugs in them. Not enough resources to put into free software.

[truefusion 3]

I would really want to be able to use IE6, IE7 and IE8 separately on Vista for layouts and designs testings

Internet Explorer 8 (unfortunately) will allow web designers to include IE code in their HTML to force Internet Explorer 8 to render just like its older versions. They say it's to help ease the process when migrating your code to Internet Explorer 8—but, practically, i doubt it will be used for that purpose. The IE devs have been purposely holding back on passing the Acid 3 test, giving the excuse that their deadline didn't allow for it. But now that Internet Explorer 8 is finally out, i wonder what other excuse they'll give.