I know is hard to account for every possible error on a piece of widely used software. But when you go to the extent of alerting about “Catastrophic” errors you should sit down and rethink your coding goals.
http://www.shipmentoffail.com/fails/2008/03/catastrophic-failure/
I’ve been searching and receiving google alerts for the last couple of days but so far everybody ius experiencing the same troubles with XPSP3, so I’ve decided to lay low for a while until some new developments with IE8 occur
In the meantime I’m going to start searching for news on firefox’s new release as well as more pictures of hot girls wearing some firefox apparel. I know, this is really geeky but what else can we do?
As it turns out, is not only IE8 Beta who’s having a problem with the update. IE7 has join it as well. Yes, I know is not a mayor issue and all that will happen, at least until now, is that you won’t be able to uninstall Ie7 or Ie8 to revert back to IE6.
I have to say that this may have been a good thing and if I were Microsoft I wouldn’t say anything to Ie7 users, this way, I would’ve force them to stay on IE7 and dump the crappy IE6. As a matter of fact I would’ve included IE7 by default on the update so that people started loosing the crappy IE6. But I’m not Microsoft so I’m not that smart.
Seriously, WTF? Apparently the new XP Update is out which should fix some stuff, and hopefully don’t break others. But, if you installed IE8 Beta then you will not get this update because apparently Microsoft is not compatible with Microsoft (crazy Vista error anyone?).
It appears that if you install this update, which you won’t get automatically if you have IE8 installed, you won’t be able to uninstall IE8. It seems you need to uninstall IE8 first, then get the update and then install IE8 Beta again.
I mean, how hard is it to make your products compatible with, well… your products??
Update: It still doesn’t work correctly so god knows what we are going to expect with IE8 multi running mode that is supposed to not break websites that where previously working with IE7.
Since I hadn’t tested this myself I couldn’t assure the button was not working correctly. But today I ran into this post which has a nice screen shot of the problem. You can see for yourself how the IE7 emulate button is pressed.
Things have been quiet for Internet Explorer 8 news. I haven’t played around with it enough since I saw the disasters with the maps and since I changed from PC to Mac which has considerably reduced my headaches and, as a matter of fact, this change would’ve completely eliminated them if it wasn’t for the fact that I still need to make sure websites work on IE6 & IE7 and in the near future: IE8.
I’ll try to play around with IE8 a little more as to get more insights on what to expect near the summer when Microsoft plans to release a second Beta. Hopefully, our websites will work the way they did with IE7.
I ran into this quote today: “There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.” (Bill Gates)
Maybe is time we start counting?
“…it’s a tough job even for developers who are trying to be cross-browser friendly…”
What is a tough job? Assuring our websites work well on all browsers and operating systems but it is specially tough when the majority of the users, around 60%, are using one of the three versions of IE which are all different between them.
Can’t we sue Microsoft?
Sorry people, we are currently taking a vacation and visiting with our guru so we can regain some sanity before we attempt to work with IE.
We’ll be back in a couple of days with all things IE.
“Sorry,
I am still a newbie, and getting more frustrated all of the time.
I have been working on a website for work, using the Sons of Ursidae menus.
I had previously tried to use the Sons of Suckerfish menu, and I got it to work in IE, but unfortunately, the third level menu was much too short and caused the form name to show up on mutiple lines. See www.twiggtimes.com/cccco/index4.htm
So I after researching, I found that this was a problem with this type of menu. So I found the Sons of Ursidae menu. www.twiggtimes.com/cccco/index10.htm which overcame that problem. The javascript was moved into a separate file, as I had read that it would be better to only load it when necessary, and to keep the html looking better.
I kept fighting with it, and could not get it to work in IE 7. Then I decided to try it in Firefox, and it worked. I also tried it in Opera, and again it worked. I do have an issue with the video showing up on top on the menu, but I would change the video back to a image file in a heartbeat to get the menu to work.
Is there something that is obvious to you that I am missing?
This thing is becoming more annoying to me everyday.
Thanks for your time,
Patrick”
