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Fri, Mar 7 2008 23:31

It's fixed - I've got my Emulate IE7 button

So there I was, waiting for my laptop to reboot after a very frustrating evening - I'd been disabling or deleting every piece of third party software I could think of - beta, alpha, pre-alpha and (what the heck do you call pre-pre-alpha). Anyway,...
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Fri, Mar 7 2008 21:30

Welcome to Internet Explorer 8

Well, here's an interesting problem... I've seen it on two machines so far (a Vista x64 machine and a Windows XP machine). Both installs are missing the Emulate IE7 button - despite it apparently being impossible to remove... :o) I suspect that...
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Thu, Mar 6 2008 7:32

The IE8 beta *for Web Developers and Designers* is now available...

Let me emphasise Dean's words: " While anyone can download it, this is a developer beta. We released it at MIX for a good reason: great web experiences start with web developers, and we want to engage developers first. We believe that to build...
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Wed, Mar 5 2008 8:26

IE8 will render pages using the "super standards" mode by default

The team's announcement is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx I admit to being in two minds about this decision - originally web site designers needed to 'opt-in' to the improvements...
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Sat, Feb 23 2008 22:09

Batten down the hatches - we've got a new User Agent String

It always happens - a new version of Internet Explorer is released and some web sites break because they are *not* using best practice when detecting browser versions. Internet Explorer 8 will introduce a new UAS, Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows...
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Thu, Dec 20 2007 21:14

Acid2 fisticuffs (yes, I am joking) ;o)

Same computer, same web page, same time, same place ... VIDEO: IE 8: On the Path to Web Standards Compliance - ACID 2 Test Pass Complete http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=367207 Firefox 2.0.0.5 - default install Internet Explorer 8 Firefox...
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Wed, Dec 19 2007 23:25

IE8 will pass Acid2

Yep, I thought that would get your attention Microsoft have announced the following about Internet Explorer 8: Microsoft are targeting 1H08 (first half of 2008) to deliver IE8 beta 1. IE8 in standards mode now correctly renders the Acid2 Browser Test...
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