02-22-2010, 07:12 AM
<!--quoteo(post=350575:date=Feb 21 2010, 10:26 PM:name=B47)<div class=\'quotetop\'>QUOTE (B47 @ Feb 21 2010, 10:26 PM) <a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=350575\"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class=\'quotemain\'><!--quotecIE8 is way better than IE7... I can say that because I design and program web sites... IE8 is getting very close to Firefox (standard) "web" rules... Sometimes IE7 needed a complete different site to work <img src=\"style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":confused:\" border=\"0\" alt=\"confused.gif\" /> I use IE8 because I didn't had any problems to date. Not a single site was buggy. Anyway, I have firefox and Google Chrome near is something happens. Maybe IE9 will integrate the standards rules correctly ...<!--QuoteEnd</div><!--QuoteEEndI don't disagree that IE8 was a much needed improvement over IE6 and IE7 in terms of standards compliance, but there are still issues, and standards compliance is not the only dimension. For example, IE8's JavaScript engine is still horrendously slow compared to that of any other browser on the market currently, and is still subject to the same memory leaks and problems that existed in previous versions. This dramatically impacts performance of any non-trivial JavaScript application (which is the majority web sites, now). Let's also not forget other dimensions like number of critical security holes found per second, being a hotbed for malware/spyware, etc.Yes, hopefully IE9 will address some of this. The sad part is that most IE users are still using IE7 or lower (almost 60%), and will probably continue doing so for some time...