Stuff & Thoughts

Well… Internet Explorer 8 is out… It is kind of cool, I admit.  And finally - I can designing and developing websites for Internet Explorer 6!

“You can?”, you ask? Yes, I can! And I will! And I have. Microsoft officially ended their support for IE6 quite some time ago. If they don’t support it - neither do I!

I will admit also - Internet Explorer 8 surely does follow my non-hacked stylesheet (for Firefox 3 and Google’s Chrome, etc) - but I have found a couple of tweaks necessary here and there. Nothing major.

Cool features of IE8:

• Less hacks to make it follow acceptable CSS styling
• Highlight an address - right click - and get a map of where you are going…  Can someone say: “Bye bye Mapquest, Google Maps” ?
• Comparison Shopping ( use the Live Search to shop for an item - click various icons that pop up to see if you might find the item cheaper elsewhere)
• Compatibility icon - if a page is broken when viewing in IE8 - click the icon - see it in compatibility mode (what a misnomer, don’t ya think?)

I’m sure there are a few other things that are just as cool.

Let me be frank, however.  Personally - I can’t stand Internet Explorer as a designer/developer. I prefer Firefox and Chrome ANY day of the week! Period!

Tags: chrome, firefox, ie8, internet explorer 8, new features

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