Internet Explorer 8 has arrived… Is your site ready?
Here are some useful links to check your sites compatibility with IE8.
The short answer is to run your site in IE8 compatibility mode described in the link below.
A quick fix is to add a meta tag on any page which you want to render as version 7 or below.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
Internet Explorer 8 and backward compatibility : CodeDiesel
Upgrading your site to run in IE8 Standards Mode is the best option in the long run, but in the interim you can quickly fix these types of issues by running your site in Compatibility Mode. This is described in Jefferson’s post on the EmulateIE7 meta tag.
IEBlog : Site Compatibility and IE8
And one thing that hasn’t changed much over the past several months is the fact that many Web sites still aren’t compatible with IE 8. The Compatibility View list includes some major sites — Apple.com, CNN.com, eBay, Facebook, Google.com, NYTimes.com — even Microsoft.com (!)
IE 8 and Javascript, below is a good summary of javascript changes in IE 8 and how to accomodate them. Again you can use compatibility mode.
Now, if you are rendering in IE5/IE7 mode, then Nothing changes except that there will be a few methods added that shouldn’t interfere with your page. However, if like the majority, you are running with a doctype set, and thus in IE8 Standards mode, the following changes have occurred.
What are the most likely causes of Javascript errors in IE8? – Stack Overflow
Microsoft’s IE 8 Compatibility List: Is it working? | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
If best practices are followed in development, the default appearance and behavior of a Web site viewed in Internet Explorer 8 should be the same as in Internet Explorer 7. By default, however, Internet Explorer 8 uses a more compliant Standards mode that supports the latest feature set in the CSS 2.1 specification.
Windows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Test Guide
Microsoft IE Readiness toolkit.
“One of our top goals with Internet Explorer 8 has been to improve developer productivity.”
Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Happy Browsing
Tags: internetexplorer 8, ie8 compatibility, ie8 readiness, cross browser compatibility, javascript compatibility
5 Comments
Internet Explorer 8 is as stable as Opera and Firefox. it does not crash a lot like IE7.
i am pretty much satisfied about the features and stability of Internet Explorer 8. it is much better than IE6 or IE7.
Internet Explorer 8 seems to be the best browser for me. I can open more than 20 windows simultaneously without crashing. IE7 and IE6 is unstable that if you open more than windows at a time it just freezes or causes the blue screen.
i love Internet Explorer 8 because it is so much stable that the previous versions of IE. IE7 sometimes freezes and causes blue screens on my PC.
i am a firefox user more than an internet explorer user but it seems that Internet explorer 8 is very stable and it its loading time for webpages is faster too.