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Dear Computerworld, there's a reason why IE8 breaks the web | |
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| Time: 11:31 EST/16:31 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Computerworld's Gregg Keizer recently reported that IE8 beta 1 users were experiencing problems loading various websites, including Microsoft sites such as Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Update. The article seems to largely lay the blame on the fact that this is a beta, but that isn't the whole story here. The "why?" question is worth exploring a bit more thoroughly.
IE8 is aimed primarily at developers. This is why Microsoft announced that IE8 would be available to the public, in addition to its selected beta testers. IE8 has a mode that passes the Acid2 test and, in response to general public outcry, Microsoft scrapped its previous statement and decided to make this mode the default, leading web developers everywhere to rejoice. However, this move will mean a huge amount of short term problems in exchange for an improvement in the state of the Internet in the long term. One day, IE8 will be more popular than IE7 and IE6 and, at that point, many websites will have a lot less to worry about thanks to IE8's significantly improved (although obviously not perfect—Acid3 anyone?), standards compliance. | ||
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| #1 By 143 (74.129.194.180) at 3/10/2008 11:56:47 AM |
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Wow, a beta 1 that needs development and "IE8 will destroy the Earth!" so, look at my article.
This article forgets there's at least two solid browser alternatives Opera & Firefox. |
| #2 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 3/10/2008 12:16:22 PM |
| Don't forget IE7 on Vista which is the most secure browsing experience available. |
| #3 By 75046 (201.52.225.19) at 3/10/2008 1:38:15 PM |
| Even the guys on Ars Technica are noting Computerworld total lack of knowledgement in everything they write... |
| #4 By 22601 (99.230.135.69) at 3/10/2008 2:16:39 PM |
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A more likely reason for IE8b1 breaking with many websites is that it is rife with bugs. IMO it is not reliable enough to be used as a primary browser, nor is it reliable enough to be used as a tool for identifying website compatibility problems.
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| #5 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at 3/11/2008 7:38:41 AM |
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I think the following quote from the article says it all:
IE8 [Beta 1] is aimed primarily at developers. Microsoft has stated this for a reason. It is to give web developers a heads up on what is coming, as well as add-on developers. If you aren't in one of these two categories, use it at your own risk. What does one expect from an early beta? Plus, with the new default of rendering in standards mode, I would expect some older sites that were designed for the pre-IE8 way of doing IE specific web sites (i.e., badly) would break in IE8, unless the new header bits are added to tell it to render in compatibility mode. I wonder how long it will be before someone writes a script to crawl an IE based web site, and add the proper compatibility mode tags to all web pages in the hierarchy? |
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