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Anything they do to improve it's standards compatibility is welcome. Unfortunately I think IEs reputation is so bad, most people who care enough to upgrade wil
by kenver 18y ago
Anything they do to improve it's standards compatibility is welcome. Unfortunately I think IEs reputation is so bad, most people who care enough to upgrade will probably use something else.
- noodle 18y agoyeah, they're going to be stuck with the negative reputation for a while within the community
- flipbrad 18y agodepends what community. any designer with the mainstream web (my parents) in mind will be reasonably attentive and receptive to this news (bearing in mind the large inertia people have in upgrading their programs - and with an upgrade this major ["Tabs? what the heck are tabs??"] there's no way microsoft will ram it down peoples' gobs, so rollout is likely to be slow. It's an interesting product tactics question though: if it were up to you, how would you encourage mainstream uptake of IE8?
- aasarava 18y agoMicrosoft will simply push the 1.0 release to Vista users via Windows Update, no? And if that's the case, developers won't have a choice but to support it (in addition to all the people still on IE7 and IE6.)
- briansmith 18y agoThere's no reason to avoid supporting IE8. On the contrary, once the kinks are worked out of it, web app developers would be wise to help as many users migrate to IE8 as possible. That is true even with IE6 vs. IE7 but it is especially true with IE8.
- staticshock 18y agono, i don't think microsoft pushes IE major version upgrades on people. people run who proprietary web apps that don't support IE7 are still using IE6.