Comments on: IE8 - Would somebody please think of the childrenthe broken web?

By: neil maycock

neil maycock — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:13:30 +0000

I agree completely. We run room booking software and as soon as we release an update you can guarantee, it will work fine in firefox, but ie…will play all sorts of mind games

By: Stéphane Deschamps

Stéphane Deschamps — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:54:23 +0000

When I got tired of hacking my CSS for IE6, I went the html > body way and used a single conditional comment to warn IE6 users that sorry, but my sleep is sometimes paramount and overpasses the need to be as coherent as possible across browsers.

I haven’t made up my mind yet on the version meta issue, but I feel that it’s a sensible thing to do from Microsoft’s point of view. And I think: hey, if this takes up too much of my time, I may end up ‘forgetting’ (as in ‘hey look, I’m forgetting willfully’) the meta and use conditional comments exactly as I did for IE6.

We’ll see. I won’t conjecture more. You’re right in saying that the dispute must still be going on.

By: Dinoboff

Dinoboff — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:55:13 +0000

The website made by the Man in suit won’t break since it might render in IE 5.5 mode (no doctype). The web sites that will break in IE8 mode are the one written with standards and fixes for IE6 and IE7.

That’s what did happen with the launch of IE7. Website in standard mode were broken, the other in quirk mode were not.

By: Damian Poole

Damian Poole — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:34:04 +0000

“How many intranet systems are inaccesible to non-JavaScript users, keyboard users or blind people? Yes, it is hard to make a company change these systems, but for Peteâ��s sake, letâ��s get rid of this cruft!”

Ahmen to that!

I work in such a company and would consider myself a standards aware developer, it really pains me some peoples narrow vision.

If moving forward means breaking “some” sites then i’m all for it.

By: Demian

Demian — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:46:46 +0000

Great article!
And thanks for your message. ;-)