Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 is now available

By: Jim Spencer

Jim Spencer — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:16:45 +0000

There is hope! A recent SitePoint newsletter shared very promising insights into IE8 treatment of CSS and even claims that IE 8 has moved ahead of competitors in terms of standards compliance. I love Firefox and my 40 plugins, so I have not rushed to install or test IE 8 for myself.

By: jess

jess — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:23:43 +0000

Amen, Jim! I spend way too much time getting pages to work with IE. So far IE 8 isn’t doing all that bad on the acid standards test. Is standards compatibility too much to hope for?

By: Jim Spencer

Jim Spencer — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:23:30 +0000

Let’s just hope that they iron out the kinks really fast and that IE 5.5 and IE 6 are deprecated immediately.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:47:15 +0000

I’ve now got it installed on a couple of my PCs, and I’m pretty pleased.

One funny note — when trying to run Windows Update from this PC, it tells me that “this requires at least Internet Explorer version 5″. I rebooted, reinstalled, no dice.

Fortunately, there is button in IE8 to “Emulate IE7″ and that does the trick.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:24:11 +0000

Not off to a good start. I’ve downloaded the install file twice (for XP) and both times the installer had aborted with a “file corrupt” message…