Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 Beta Released, Fails To Excite

By: Alaban

Alaban — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:41:54 +0000

IE 8 its cool, but i know more very cool browsers - Jasins says “firefox”!)

By: Jasin

Jasin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:29:38 +0000

This sounds more like IE 7.1 than version 8. But I guess version numbers are more about marketing than real big changes. Firefox 2.0 should of been like version 1.5 and Firefox 1.5 should of been like Firefox 1.1

By: Links of Interest :: FULL clout

Links of Interest :: FULL clout — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:12:26 +0000

[...] There has been a bunch of hoop-la about Internet Explorer 8 passing the ACID 2 Test and the version targeting fiasco (and resolution) . Now the public beta is out and people aren’t as excited anymore. [...]

By: Callum

Callum — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:34:53 +0000

Is it me or does it seem that microsoft just copy Google & Apple these days!

Web Slices more like WebClips! Get a grip microsoft try to think of something original

By: Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer

Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:41:31 +0000

Tom, I’m really sorry if you have a hard time detecting humor and sarcasm. I really am. I think I might be British in another life

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:41:58 +0000

“First of all, IE8 can only be installed in Windows Vista SP1, XP SP2, 2008 Server, and 2003 Server SP2. Which leads me to think that this is nothing more than a business ploy to get people to upgrade their *cough* legal *cough* Microsoft OS.”

If you’re using XP, for example, you should be using SP2. If you’re not then you’re either one of the poorly informed “average” users who are likely to care the least about changing or upgrading such a thing as the web browser or you’re using it illegally and haven’t risked downloading yourself a naughty SP2 image. This seems like such a hollow stab at Microsoft from nothing other than personal bias, though as such it seems to set up the rest of the article well as a number of the points throughout are such meaningless and unimportant criticisms as to make it feel as though they’re there to flesh your post out.

I personally don’t care about this browser’s release from anything other than the point of view of a web designer/developer who is tired of having to accommodate IE’s “quirks” for the sake of marketshare. I certainly won’t be giving up my Firefox for it, especially with how well FF3 is performing for me in beta right now. But that web designer point of view seems to be the most important one with this release, with MS even seeming to take it into account with some of their decisions. As such, on a site centered around web design, it’s a shame to have to sift through MS conspiracy theory and trivial complaints about the unexciting names of features to find useful information about this release.

By: Autodesign » Links of Interest

Autodesign » Links of Interest — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:03:09 +0000

By: Alexander Heß

Alexander Heß — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:39:27 +0000

Yeah, so what?

It’s not like everyone will upgrade even if IE8 was stable and passed Acid2. IE6 still has a market share of more than 30% according to Net Applications, and IE7 was launched one and a half years ago.

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:43:28 +0000

Ok thanks for the article you just saved me time as I was going to install it and test it but now? Ill just do some work instead.

By: Links of Interest - CSS-Tricks

Links of Interest - CSS-Tricks — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:17:20 +0000