i was at the ieblog site today and was surprise to findout that ie8 even with it’s super standard mode will still break sites????WTF
i am sad to say that i am not the only one mad at the fact that ie8 will still not work to standers but that there is going to now be another version out there to code for i had hope that they would just let it die at 7 and just start shipping firefox with there os.
i will say no more take a look at the ieblog and the Quotes here is my quote and my top two.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 9:20 AM by kimane
i have just about had it with Microsoft i have been a web developer for over 8 years and at the point of just doing something else!!! coding now for 3 versions of ie is making everyone nuts do you all not read what people are saying, i think not cause now your going to put another one out there come on would you all over there just please resign and have them ship the os with firefox For The Love Of God please BILL just let them all go.
crying web developer
Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:06 PM by Oliver
And of course you’re going to allow me to run the beta standalone aren’t you. I mean anything else would be crazy wouldn’t it, given the number of changes you’re making to turn your product into something that has suddenly started to adhere to standards…
Oh wait… you aren’t? I’m going to have no way of testing compatibility between versions 5 through 8 of what has been the buggiest, most consistently inconsistent browser of all time?
“Run them in virtual machines”. No. I’m not going to have 4 different installations of Windows on my machine. I can’t be bothered any more. I’m just going to develop in Flash, Flex and AIR (Silverlight can take a running jump given how I feel about how I’ve been treated as a developer by Microsoft over the last 7 incredibly painful years) and if I do write HTML I’m going to make it standards compliant and include a “gold bar” at the top of the window telling IE users to download Firefox.
Including proprietary headers like X-UA-compatible is not something I’ll be doing just to save Microsoft’s blushes. As much as the current team is to be commended for their efforts, their employers did nothing for *years*. Developers were required to work hundreds of hours for no recompense to get it to work properly and I, for one, have had enough.
Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:09 PM by Gyrobo
You’ve just ADMITTED that even WITH super standards mode as an opt-in, IE8 will STILL cause site breakage.
The question remains: are you incompetent, or do you just hate developers?
