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IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too

Posted by timothy on from the when-bugs-escape dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Register: "The Windows 8.1 rollout has hit more hurdles: the new version 11 of Internet Explorer that ships with the operating system does not render Google products well and is also making life difficult for users of Microsoft's own Outlook Web Access webmail product. The latter issue is well known: Microsoft popped out some advice about the fact that only the most basic interface to the webmail tool will work back in July. It seems not every sysadmin got the memo and implemented Redmond's preferred workarounds, but there are only scattered complaints out there, likely because few organisations have bothered implementing Windows 8.1 yet." Also from the article: "Numerous reports suggest that IE 11 users can once again enjoy access to all things Google if they un-tick the IE 11 option to 'Use Microsoft Compatibility lists.'" And here's Microsoft KB work around.

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  1. Hmm... by DrPBacon · · Score: 5, Informative

    I guess they were too busy building http://www.hover.ie/ ...

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    1. Re:Hmm... by Moblaster · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well they were definitely building something that distracted them. Because in all my years of web development, IE has definitely been the most standards-compliant browser. I've never heard of a situation in which IE did not render something correctly, or in a non-standard fashion, or in any kind of fashion that causes developers to scream at the screen, angrily toss their mouse outside the window, and yell foul obscenities at a Bill Gates they cannot see, in a place far away where they cannot touch.

    2. Re:Hmm... by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You are being funny but ironically the roles have reversed now, now its MSFT and IE that is making the standards complaint browser and Google that is putting in Chrome tags and making their own forks that break compatibility....EEE anyone?

      I guess it doesn't really matter who is on top as being on top seems to automatically turn you into the evil asshole, I'd guess its one part greed mixed with 2 parts fear that someone will come along and beat you that makes these companies start turning nasty when they make it to the top.

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    3. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Adding custom extensions, like using -webkit-, -moz- or -ms- (note the last one) for CSS and similar for JS APIs, is not how you break compatibility.

      Making your implementation behave wildly unlike any other - what IE did - is how you break compatibility.

  2. Known workaround by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Use IE to download your browser of choice.

  3. Can you do better? by dutchwhizzman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've wished for a better UI for webmail for years, but I haven't found one yet that meets google webmail yet, FOSS or payware. The same applies to their web search, although duckduck has some nice change features added that google lacks. Unfortunately duckduck's search results are often not good enough so I have to google my query. I'd love to be able to get rid of google, but the fact is that it's hard to get a similar quality service with a similar or better quality UI.

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  4. Heh. by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    IE 11 ain't done until Google won't run.

    Has a vaguely familiar ring...

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  5. No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    /. just doesn't go to 11. IE does, and it shows.

  6. Re:I'd worry about this by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a Samsung laptop and upgraded it to Windows 8.1 too.

    The short answer is you're fucked. The laptop will not work with Windows 8.1.

    The longer answer is that as part of the upgrade, Windows 8.1 installs broken display drivers. You need to disable the AMD graphics device in order to restore functionality. Unfortunately working drivers are flat-out not available on Samsung's site, and it's no longer possible to enter Safe Mode in Windows 8/8.1 by pressing F8 while it starts.

    Instead, start it booting and then IMMEDIATELY hold down the power button. The idea is to get it to power off while Windows is starting, forcing it to allow you to choose to enter Safe Mode. Once you do that, you can go to the Device Manager and disable your AMD graphics.

    At this point you'll have a working laptop that runs really, really badly. Anything you used to use accelerated graphics for is fucked.

    But, hey, working. Sort of.

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