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General Community => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Boudi on March 19, 2009, 05:04:38 PM

Title: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: Boudi on March 19, 2009, 05:04:38 PM

Hi,

IE 8.0 will come in the next few days as a final version.

I checked several WB websites with 8.0 and I must say...there problems.

Simpleviewer does have big issues for instance. (I know it's a mod with external base)

And the admin is screwed up too.

Besides that I noticed lots of issues on websites who did came out clean on 7.0/FF/safari

Do we need to worrie? Or will IE 8.0 will develop itself any further so that it could match FF.

Any feedback pls  :lol:

Greetz,
Boudi

Title: Re: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: Ruud on March 19, 2009, 05:28:46 PM

You will have to test and modify all your sites for "IE8 standards mode" compatibility  :evil:

The quick and dirty way is to add

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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />in your template(s).
With that, IE8 should act like it is IE7.

There is lots of stuff to read about this issue. Just google for a while :-)

My opinion? This will really help FF and Chrome.
Using IE8 half the world (wide web) will not be displayed correctly, so people will start looking for alternatives.

Ruud

Note: The discussion is very valid, but remember this is NOT a WB issue. WB will just send out whatever you tell it to send (template).
This is about HTML/XHTML/CSS/Standards and their Interpretation (and microsoft IE5/IE6/IE7/IE8)

Edit #2:
Microsofts solution: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968499/#Method5
Note that they tell you to put the meta-tag as the first one in the head section. It might not work if placed elsewhere.

Title: Re: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: Boudi on March 19, 2009, 10:41:10 PM

hi Ruud...

Modify all our websites?  :-o Funny you  :-P

Personally I think that that MS had to get this 8.0 online asap because they saw their ass already burning with alternative browsers.

Besides that there's a "compability button on the browser if the website doesn't look right" in 8.0. Knowing this I think my first point is right: they had to hurry up and put some button with IE 7 settings behind it otherwise lots of websites look like crap in 8.0.

I think they will correct these in the near future. And like you said...they have to otherwise FF/Chrome and others will grow even faster...

Greetz from sunny Holland
Boudi

Title: Re: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: albatros on March 19, 2009, 10:55:06 PM

Hi,

in my eyes it is, like it always is with ms-software. It's just an extended beta-test, isn't it?

Best regards

Uwe

Title: Re: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: Boudi on March 19, 2009, 10:58:38 PM

 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Title: Re: WB and Internet Explorer 8.0
Post by: crnogorac081 on March 20, 2009, 01:09:58 AM

omg, i cant belive ie8 that sucks :))) they are really going down with it :))