March 24, 2009 - 7:33am
asp.net menu
IE8 does not support ASP.NET menu. Ironic, yes? it turns out that it is a known bug in IE8 Beta. Microsoft provides a META tag that you can you use to force IE8 to view your page as IE7, but that doesn't work. The only thing that works (and i have been down this path recently) is for the user to set their IE8 to view the given website as IE7. Painful.
BETA = Barely Even Testing Anything
March 24, 2009 - 9:19am
Waiting...
At Mustardseed, we won't support IE8 on any of our projects until it's 'ready' and released. Therefore, I'm not even going to bother looking until they work out the bugs and get it released...otherwise, I may spend alot of time 'tweaking' sites to work, only to find out I was tweaking it to work with a buggy version.
When it's released, I'll download it...but I'll wait until then.
March 24, 2009 - 12:38pm
Maybe I'm missing something
It looks to me like they actually released the "real" version. That's what prompted my question.
@Rob, I agree with you. I'm not thinking about tweaking anything for IE8, but I would address anything that I thought was a major problem.
Curt
March 24, 2009 - 5:47pm
IE 8 fully released last week
IE 8 was fully launched last week - if you go to www.microsoft.com/ie you will find everything tuned to IE 8 downloads - and IE 7 relegated to the bottom as 'older versions'.
We've had fun testing IE 8 - if anyone happens to use the Yahoo UI (YUI) library in their sites/applications, you could find that your Javascript applications are broken. A new version of YUI is out to fix it, but you need to upgrade. The same could be true of other JS libraries (Mootools, JQuery, ...) - I haven't tested them yet so I don't know.
As for testing with multiple browsers - I used to use Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows in order to have one virtual machine with XP and IE 6, another with XP and IE 7 etc. Now I use the same technique with Parallels on the Mac - so I have separate XP virtual machines for IE 6, 7 and now 8 (and various versions of Safari and Firefox). The wonders of technology!
Alan.
March 24, 2009 - 5:54pm
IE 8 contains developer tools (Javascript / CSS)!
Well - if there's one good thing that Microsoft has done - it's apparently to include decent debugging tools in IE 8 for javascript and CSS.
Alan.
March 26, 2009 - 11:27am
We've had fun testing IE 8 -
We've had fun testing IE 8 - if anyone happens to use the Yahoo UI (YUI) library in their sites/applications, you could find that your Javascript applications are broken. A new version of YUI is out to fix it, but you need to upgrade. The same could be true of other JS libraries (Mootools, JQuery, ...) - I haven't tested them yet so I don't know.
So sounds like IE8 is fully standards compliant like they promised.
I've been thinking (boy, that's dangerous) that since IE 8 has been released by Microsoft I ought to install it so that I can see how my sites look. However, the most logical machine do to the installation on is also the machine where I do most of my development and maintenance so I'm not too inclined to be bleeding edge. Also, I need to know how my sites look with IE 7. IE 8 is supposed to emulated other versions and I wonder how well this works.
So, has anybody tried it yet? And, if so, what are your experiences?
Thanks,
Curt