On 8 mar, 12:58, "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@central.netwrote:
A pain ain't it! As as MS keeps dragging behind like a uncooperative
2-year-old this is a web designer's reality. Recent reports I've read
IE8 is that it will probably fall short again opposed to first blush...
Johnathan,
I think it would be more proper here to be nuanced and be more "wait-
and-see". You and I do not know how good/correct/compliant IE 8 final
will be. So far, Microsoft has created a brand new rendering engine
and many modules (eg inline module) have not been yet implemented but
will be implemented before IE 8 final is RTM. Solid facts we can be
sure of so far about IE 8:
- float model implementation has been corrected: there are still some
issues left
- adjoining margin collapsing has been fixed entirely
- z-index has been correctly implemented: there are still a few cases
left to fix
- the most glaring obvious bugs (1 crash and 3 hang bugs) have been
fixed
- people are filing bugs at connect
Lots of people complained about the above 5 items.
- there won't be any CSS 3 properties implemented (eg opacity, border-
radius), no SVG support. I personally do not see why many people are
upset with that. IE's proprietary filter: alpha(opacity=) should be
supported in IE 8 final.
If IE 8 beta 1 is a fair indication of what IE 8 final will be, then
IE 8 will reduce the gap between other better-web-standards-compliant
browsers like Firefox 3, Opera 9.50, Safari 3.1 and Konqueror 4.03.
There will be areas where IE 8 will be far behind like DOM 2 Events,
DOM 2 CSS.
"Our goal is to deliver complete, full CSS 2.1 support in the final
IE8 product."
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager, Internet Explorer, March 5th 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...available.aspx
"We want to make IE8's Standards mode much, much better than IE7's
Standards mode."
Dean Hachamovitch, March 3rd 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...s-and-ie8.aspx
Microsoft has also commited itself on a number of issues like complete
DOM (1 or 2?) Core support. There will be a beta 2 release.
After a careful reading of their documentation, I believe DOM 2 Events
interface and DOM 2 Stylesheets interface won't be implemented..
Regards, Gérard
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