Oh no...

[Paul M]

... Internet Explorer 8 Beta

[timeshifter]

You jsut now heard about this? I first heard about it probably a month ago. Sickening, isn't it?

[Paul M]

They continue to persist though which is good i guess, never be as good as FF or Opera though.

[Foxer]

sigh. Another pointless thread about FF vs IE.

Can't we talk about Shaggy's socks instead?

Or Mendhak's smoking addiction?

Or OB's addiction to cookies?

[Paul M]

Oh this isn't an FF vs IE thread, that fight was resolved long ago (FF won )

[Foxer]

* stabs Paul in the eye with a unfolded paperclip *

[RobDog888]

FF went down the crapper a long time ago. IE will always win over any other browser easily

[Foxer]

* stabs Yoda in the eye with same paperclip *

[Paul M]

* stabs Paul in the eye with a unfolded paperclip *

FF went down the crapper a long time ago. IE will always win over any other browser easily

Fail

[RobDog888]

Fail

Yes, FF did fail and fail miserably

[RobDog888]

* stabs Yoda in the eye with same paperclip *

You missed as I used the Force to block it.

* uses the Force to throw Foxer across the forums and into a wall *

[Foxer]

* Foxer epic failz *

[kleinma]

I checked out IE8 before on a VM and it looks and feels a lot like IE7

I didn't get to mess around too much, but I will tomorrow when I have more time.

[penagate]

Oh no...

Oh no what? This is good news. Anything that further washes the abomination that was Internet Explorer 6 and older from the seas of the web can only be positive.

I don't expect it to look or feel any differently from IE 7. This is primarily a rendering engine update.

[timeshifter]

Is it fully standards compliant?

[penagate]

No. Nothing is or will ever be. The majority of web standards are esoteric and irrelevant.

[RobDog888]

4 out of 5 web developers know that.

[dsheller]

And those same 4 probably don't follow most of the standards themselves.

[Paul M]

Oh no what? This is good news. Anything that further washes the abomination that was Internet Explorer 6 and older from the seas of the web can only be positive.

I don't expect it to look or feel any differently from IE 7. This is primarily a rendering engine update.

Well after just testing IE8 my level of dissapointment has dropped even lower. Half my sites aren't rendering properly

[Disiance]

I do hope IE8 supports the HTML 5 working draft.

What's that? Oh, yes. Yes indeed. That document has been released by the W3C.

[Thunder!]

Oh no... is apt, from cutting edge to bleeding edge in 10 mins flat.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Bow to the power of XHTML! And grimace at the stupid, stupid legacy compromise called XHTML Transitional.

[mendhak]

I hope IE 8 supports Web 2.0.

[Disiance]

Bow to the power of XHTML! And grimace at the stupid, stupid legacy compromise called XHTML Transitional.

Well stated.

[timeshifter]

And those same 4 probably don't follow most of the standards themselves.

Chances are high that all four of them are IE developers...

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

And it better be fully backwards compatible with Windows 3.1

We wouldn't want a couple dozen people in northern siberia missing out on the interweb revolution,

[Disiance]

And it better be fully backwards compatible with Windows 3.1

We wouldn't want a couple dozen people in northern siberia missing out on the interweb revolution,

But according to the W3C, development for Pre-98 machines is irrelevant and stupid.

Oh, wait. This is IE we're talking about.