Microsoft.com, Google Included on IE8's Incompatibility List

If your company releases a browser, you’d hope that your own website would work using said browser, wouldn’t you? Well, it looks like Microsoft has managed to somehow mess that up, with their very own site (among others) on IE8’s incompatibility list.
Among the broken sites are bigs such as Google.com, Yahoo.com, Live.com, Wikipedia.org, Flickr.com and many others. A larger list can be found here.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed that the next update for IE8 is a big one.
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runner7775
February 20, 2009 at 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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Shalbatana
February 20, 2009 at 12:29pm
They shouldn't be modifying their site to make it IE8 compatible, they should be modifying their browser to make it universal standards compatible.
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runner7775
February 20, 2009 at 10:44pm
Even then, the only real problems that have arisen because of this are slight rendering problems on the sites. All browsers will have those kinds of quirks on sites. Still I think the attention this is getting pretty silly, we can complain big time if IE 8 is released and the problems persist but its definitely too early.
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roninnder
February 19, 2009 at 11:57pm
Internet Explorer = Garbage.
Apparently Garbage 8.0 is still garbage; I'm not surprised.
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thegamepro
February 19, 2009 at 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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thegamepro
February 19, 2009 at 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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thegamepro
February 19, 2009 at 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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thegamepro
February 19, 2009 at 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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grayscare0
February 19, 2009 at 3:26pm
Absolutely pathetic, and yet another reason to stick with Firefox.
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DotNetPaul
February 19, 2009 at 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.
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SysAnalyst
February 20, 2009 at 6:42am
If you think the issue is IE8 enforcing standards compliance, why does RC1 fail the Acid 3 test so miserablely?Scoring only a 20/100. Especially when FF3.1b2 scores a 92/100. And Opera 10 scores a perfect 100.
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runner7775
February 20, 2009 at 8:56am
These tests, while useful, are in no way idicative of real world websites.
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SysAnalyst
February 24, 2009 at 11:46am
Agreed. But they still show web standards compliance, which was my point. I was a diehard Opera user for years. Regardless, I'll stick with FF 3.1b for now.
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Looksback
February 19, 2009 at 6:39pm
I've been using the IE8 release candidate and your explanation is helpful.
















