Re: Official Release of IE8

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+Bob+;997336 Wrote:
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:49:21 -0000, "Synapse Syndrome [KGB]"
<synapse@xxxxxx> wrote:

I think you missed the part where he said that it was a dynamic PHP
page.
The W3C Validator is not going to check what the PHP scripting puts
into the
page, so whether the XHTML container validates or not is irrelevant.
He
should have been validating the CSS anyway - not the XHTML - there is
a
separate test for that. > > I'm assuming that he tested the output page for compatibility, not the
template page. If he tested the template (I supposed it's possible)
then you are correct.

Yes, although the page is PHP, it is very simple; effectively straight
DHTML with no real scripting going on. CSS is validated clean (but I
think the issue is with CSS). And no browser tweaks for IE6/IE7.

I am sure it is something trivial and we may be able to work around
it.. and don't get me wrong; I hope IE8 gets a fast uptake & and that MS
can somehow hasten the death of IE6 & IE7 'tweaks' but I am still
disappointed; thought it would 'just work' like all the other new
browsers. I ran a couple more tests on browsershots & pretty much other
browser since IE6 works fine. Just IE8 gets screwed; and my compliant is
that they really need something like the old Firefox 'report a problem
with this website' button in a Release Canditate.

Oh.. and it does not seem to have Silverlight come pre-installed with
IE8. Thought that might have happened, but glad it didn't. Nice touch is
that it imports settings from Firefox - which is a turn around. I will
be sticking with FF 3.1 (beta 3) for now, though Safari looks nicer.


--
GrantB
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