IE 8

Submitted by runner7775 on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 8:24am

This is pretty silly.  IE 8 hasn't been released yet and Microsoft is obviously going to modify their site to become compliant.  As someone posted below, this is a good thing.

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Who cares?

Submitted by roninnder on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 11:57pm

Internet Explorer = Garbage.
Apparently Garbage 8.0 is still garbage; I'm not surprised.

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sorry for the repeated posts.

Submitted by thegamepro on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 7:13pm

When I hit the send button the screen turned white and of course I hit the refresh button several times and after I gave up, I notice that the refresh button reposted the same thing.  No I wasn't using IE8 I was using firefox. *sigh* no browser is perfect *sigh*

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Microsoft is a threat to itself...

Submitted by thegamepro on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 7:08pm

I'm not too suprised because whenever you want to install an official microsoft update that doesn't come through the windows auto-updater, you always get that message that tells you "the official microsoft update is not approved by microsoft corporation and may be harmful to your computer.  Please make sure you trust the source before proceding."

 I personally don't care because I use firefox but microsoft eventually gets a few things right for the hundreds of things they get wrong.

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Microsoft is a threat to itself...

Submitted by thegamepro on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 7:08pm

I'm not too suprised because whenever you want to install an official microsoft update that doesn't come through the windows auto-updater, you always get that message that tells you "the official microsoft update is not approved by microsoft corporation and may be harmful to your computer.  Please make sure you trust the source before proceding."

 I personally don't care because I use firefox but microsoft eventually gets a few things right for the hundreds of things they get wrong.

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Microsoft is a threat to itself...

Submitted by thegamepro on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 7:08pm

I'm not too suprised because whenever you want to install an official microsoft update that doesn't come through the windows auto-updater, you always get that message that tells you "the official microsoft update is not approved by microsoft corporation and may be harmful to your computer.  Please make sure you trust the source before proceding."

 I personally don't care because I use firefox but microsoft eventually gets a few things right for the hundreds of things they get wrong.

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Not what you think

Submitted by Michael Bolton on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 4:10pm

Only a member for a day and lots to say?

 

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Absolutely pathetic, and yet

Submitted by grayscare0 on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 3:26pm

Absolutely pathetic, and yet another reason to stick with Firefox.

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Not what you think

Submitted by DotNetPaul on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 3:25pm

While I'm sure that this might seem like a great way to catch headlines, let me explain why this is actually a good thing.  IE8 has the ability to enforce strict W3C standards compliance.  Any site not built to those standards doesn't render properly, which as this list points out includes Microsoft and Google.  This is an important point for all those Microsoft FUD slingers that talk about how Microsoft isn't standards compliant and the rest of the world somehow is.  Microsoft is clearly showing that they aren't and neither is 2400 other major web sites.  It takes some guts to be willing to point out your own faults.

Fortunately, the user can dial down the standards compliance enforcement and these sites will render just fine.

 DotNetPaul

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