Internet Explorer 8 - Yet more IE specific tags..

[YokaI]

Back on the firefox issue, even if it does take a bit of memory, the extra features make up for it. Besides, if your computer CAN'T run firefox, I think you may want to invest in a better computer. No hard feelings or anything, but even my old crap-desktop can run firefox more efficiantly than IE while performing other tasks such as gaming, mapping or listening to music without even having to bother to close firefox... I mean, I think its safe to say that it isn't HOGGING memory but rather using it more efficiently than IE would in any case.

[Jest@]

Hate to bump the beginnings of a flamewar, but here's a very good article on the matter from no less a figure than Zeldman - who, given that he was one of the first, most vocal & most successful standardistas, is not an inconsiderable voice.

[Dotmister]

Actually, you'd be wrong in saying Microsoft is heading *away* from the open standards, as declared by the w3. As soon as I downloaded it, I knocked up a little AJAX testing page. I'm sure most of you won't know about the backend of AJAX, so I won't bore you. Basically, IE8 complies with that, and many more w3 declared functions correctly. You used to have to open the AJAX statement independantly with IE, now is not the case.

Someone in page 1 said that IE8 fails because it doesn't pass the Acid3 test. No browser out of BETA passes the ACID3 test, so saying it sucks is like saying all final browsers suck. The Acid tests are designed to make browsers conform, not check that they do.

Also, Firefox 2.0 doesn't pass the ACID2 test, so bitching at MS for not passing it is like saying Firefox sucks.

Also, some of you seem to think that making more tags for IE8 will break the internet, these tags are for websites that only work on IE. IE8 defaults to standards compliant renderer, IE only sites won't work on this, so these tags stop these sites from breaking.

I'm just putting my view up, I use firefox and fully support it. Some of you seem to just pick on Microsoft without proper reasoning, just because it's an easy target.

[dissonance]

Firefox /does/ suck, IMO. FF2 was nice, but the fact that they /still? haven't built mousewheel-scrolable tabs into FF3 pisses me off. Honestly now, it's not that hard.

Webkit-enabled Epiphany FTW!

[XenLand]

"The day microsoft makes a good product, will be the day when they start selling vacuum cleaners"

epic fail

correct answer was:

"The day microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, will be the day when they start making vacuum cleaners"

If they start making vacuums, dosent that mean they still suck?

[SlappyBag]

But they are crap so their vacuum cleaners won't suck =P

[XenLand]

Good one