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A First Look At Internet Explorer 8 RC1

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-lookit-that dept.

bogaboga writes "TG Daily reports that Microsoft quietly released the first update to its IE8 beta 2 to its closest partners last week. This new version only scores a dismal 12/100 on the Acid 3 test, though the score improves significantly if one leaves the [browser] window open for at least a minute. It is marked as 'Release Candidate 1.'"

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  1. Good by spinkham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As someone who does both web security and some web design, I couldn't be happier.
    Yes, IE 8 still sucks, but it sucks less then IE 7, which sucks less then IE 6.
    IE 8 has some decent rendering improvements, a built in XSS filter, and lots of other changes.
    In standards compliance it still sucks versus all the compition, but as long as it helps kill off IE 6, I'm happy.

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    1. Re:Good by Leafheart · · Score: 5, Insightful

      In standards compliance it still sucks versus all the compition, but as long as it helps kill off IE 6, I'm happy.

      As someone doing web design for a living for the past 10 years I can tell you that I'm really not happy. At all. I put standards compliance much higher than any gimmick like XSS. If firefox still had all the Extensions (which is hard to live without) but was not standards compliant, I would hate it, a lot.

      Another IE that is not standards compliant, means or a new set of rules I cannot use on my code, or another set of hacks (already ahve one for 5, 5.5, 6 and 7

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    2. Re:Good by Rearden82 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      IE6 is still very popular despite the fact that 7 came out over two years ago. If users haven't upgraded by now, I see no reason why they would when 8 is released.

      I'm sure IE8 will be broken in slightly different ways from 6 and 7. So all this really means is we will have to implement hacks for three different versions of a shitty, non-standards-compliant browser for the foreseeable future, instead of two.

  2. Re:Even simple HTML can crash IE8 by TeXMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Poorly written HTML should NOT crash a browser.

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  3. Re:Even simple HTML can crash IE8 by Fastolfe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nothing should crash anything.