Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Mar 2008 21:15 UTC
Ars takes a closer look at the Internet Explorer 8 beta (released yesterday), and concludes. "Niggles aside, IE8 is shaping up quite well. Clearly, a lot of work has been done on standards compliance, and it looks like it's paying off. If IE8's development continues down the path it's on, it will finally be a version of Internet Explorer fit for the 21st century."
Thread beginning with comment 303687
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-11-14
From a standards standpoint, the difference between IE6 and IE7 was that two CSS operators (+ and >) were supported, PNG transparency was finally supported, and some box model calculations were corrected. That's it
IE8 has more support for CSS2 properties, but still falls far behind FF and Opera which managed these properties at least four years ago. It corrects the text-align:center mistake where that property incorrectly centered block elements like TABLE instead of the contents of that table's cells. It seems to have repaired some inheritance problems. CSS2's empty-cells property works now.
Regrettably the broken implementations of Q, OBJECT and BUTTON are no different than they were in 2000. It still doesn't recognize the correct MIMEtype for XHTML. Many basic CSS2 properties like caption-side are still unsupported.