IE 8 Beta

[The Little Guy]

Anyone tried IE 8 yet? What do you think of it? Is it as good as they say it is? (for Microsoft)

 

IE8 Download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

[Daniel0]

It crashes often for me, but it does pass Acid2.

[The Little Guy]

When testing sites, does it show up more similar to FireFox? Or does it have its own way of doing things still?

[Daniel0]

Here are a couple of screenshots:

 

 

As seen in the screenshots, there are some places where it doesn't render elements correctly.

[redbullmarky]

with regards to the Acid 2 test, unfortunately I managed to come across some leaked code from IE8:

 

if ($url == 'http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.htm') {
   # load pre-drawn image cut from an Opera screenshot. that'll fool 'em
   loadImage('acid2_opera.gif')
}
else {
   # now we have determined those pesky web people are not looking at the Acid page, we can render the page normally.
   # that is to say, broken.
   if (stristr($url, 'microsoft.com')) {
      outputPageProperly();
   }
   else
   if (stristr($url, 'firefox')) {
      reallyBuggerThingsUpToMakeThemBelieveFirefoxIsCrap()
   }
   else
   if (styleSheetLooksValid()) {
      invalidateStylesheet()
   }
   else {
      invalidateSomethingElseAnyway() 
   }
}

[Daniel0]

lol.

[zq29]

Upon the release of IE8, what are your thoughts on supporting/coding for IE6? Are you still going to test and bugfix pages for it? If so, at what point would you feel comfortable to disregard it?

[Daniel0]

I have already dropped it seeing as I cannot run IE6 alongside IE7.

[redbullmarky]

i've dropped support too, however i still need to keep up to scratch with IE6 hacks as my place of work still do support v6.

[roopurt18]

I see that IE8 has an Emulate IE7 button; I wish they had an Emulate IE6 button as well.

[fenway]

I have already dropped it seeing as I cannot run IE6 alongside IE7.

Not entirely true.

[Daniel0]

I have already dropped it seeing as I cannot run IE6 alongside IE7.

Not entirely true.

 

If you're using Windows Vista it is. IE6 is too tightly coupled to the Windows XP kernel which makes it impossible to run IE6 on Windows Vista that uses the newer NT 6.0 kernel. As far as I know has nobody succeeded in getting IE6 to work natively and full functionally under Vista. As seen in the screenshots I posted earlier in this thread I'm using Vista which means that'll I'll have to run an earlier version of Windows in a virtual machine in order to run IE6.