IE8 madness

Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 8:54 pm. 3 comments

I cannot believe IT! A year ago i was thinking, gr8 Microsoft is getting closer to other browsers and i don’t need to think about IE, like all the time. “Will this work on IE? Is there some kind of a hack to get this work on IE”… IE7 was cool! The frikkin’ madness about IE8 … It comes with a little button called “Compatibility view”. Few weeks ago i started some cool project, which i’ll reveal in the future, without any concerns about IE (I considered IE6 as obsolete and i HANDLE it with “you’re here with IE6 buddy, i’m sorry for you, you cannot see this page”).

I finished with design and checked the site on firefox, chrome, opera, safari - it worked flawlessly. And then i tried it on IE (I accidentally thrown windows 7 beta on my PC and it came with IE8 beta). I could cry when i saw the page… NOT AGAIN! Microsoft took things in his hands… Could not believe my eyes. I clicked “Compatibility view” button when this message popped out: “Websites designed for older browsers will often look better, and problems such as out-of-place menus, images, or text will be corrected with compatibility view”. ?!!?!? It’s like, you’re about to tell me that i don’t know how to make sites for todays standards. (Page is valid - XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS too, it works in every browser… except your browser!! stupid fucks…).

Nah, when i clicked that button, it all worked OK as it should (i think they’re using IE7 way to display it right). I went to their blog and few other sites to read a thing or two about it. They told me that IE8 is more strict towards web Microsoft standards , and you know what else? There are high-volume sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, bbc.co.uk, and cnn.com which DON’T work properly on IE8. Oh i forgot, msn.com and microsoft.com neither!

Microsoft’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-compatibility-view.aspx

Here’s one to you Microsoft _.|..! Go fuck yourselves, your stupid browser and releases. I rather break my leg than support your stupid standards.

3 Replies

  1. Jan Mar 26th 2009

    Don’t be shy, tell us how you really feel :)

    I guess it’s time I take a look at IE8. Unfortunatelly I still have to support IE6 :S
    haven’t got a clue how I’ll have all there browsers handy for testing :\

  2. myha Mar 27th 2009

    Word, it is really annoying to write code especially for IE. I hoped that in IE8 it would be better and that they would finally start following standards, but I guess not. :-) Maybe in IE10. ;)

  3. SpinX Jun 27th 2009

    I can appreciate your frustration. Last month I nearly offed myself when I had to code email newsletter template. If you think IE is crap, try supporting Outlook 2007 :)

    Fortunately they had enough common sense to include compatible meta tag. Drop this:

    right after and IE8 will render your page like IE7.


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