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IE8 May Cause Your Website To Display Incorrectly
By Reshma Kumar at May 26, 2008 2 Comments
The beta versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 are here and although there is no firm release date as of yet for the final version of the latest IE browser, are you and your sites ready for it? IE 8 is being created to ensure adherence to web standards for interoperability. It is being touted as including a more standards-compatible layout engine by default which allows developers to build a single standards compatible website for multiple browsers. The problem and irony is that web sites created for Internet Explorer 7 and below, may not render as they should in IE 8. Users may experience one of the following issues:
• Misaligned web page layout
• Overlapping text or images
• JavaScript functionality issues and errors
Yikes. The issue is that IE 8 uses its new ’standards mode’ by default which is different from the IE 7 standards mode. However, if your site exhibits any of the above pesky symptoms, clicking on the ‘Emulate IE 7′ button will allow users to revert to viewing your site as it should appear using the IE 7 compatible layout engine to retain compatibility with existing sites. The other Microsoft prescribed remedy is to add a site or page-level meta tag to tell IE8 to display the page for IE7.
Labels: internet explorer, Microsoft, msft, web browsers
2 Comments
Leave it to Microsoft to even make following standards a pain in the ass…
If Microsoft stopped making web browsers, would the general public care?