IE8 Released
Posted 20/03/2009 – 11:09 in: Internet, Opinion
It’s finally landed, IE8 has been released. It seems like only yesterday I was contemplating installing RC1, wondering if it will break my machine and bring development to a grinding halt. But I did install the beta and that seemed to work ok, particularly with the IE7 compatibility mode.
My colleague has installed it and so far so good. The backwards compatibility modes look great, and the preview function is awesome. Other features that top the official info is better security and HTML5 support.
Security has always been a big concern for IE, so it will be good to see how well IE8 fares. The strapline underpinning the release seems to be “lessons learnt”. Big talk for the big browser.
Regarding the HTML5 support, well, it’s not exactly a huge leap forward. What I’m really looking forward to is decent CSS support. Actually, the biggest thing I’m looking forward to is, hopefully, the death of IE6. It’s the bane of every web developers life!
Tags: browser, ie8, microsoft