Comments on: IE6, IE7, IE8, web standards IE6, IE7, IE8, web standards http://ghettocooler.net/2008/03/17/ie6-ie7-ie8/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bill http://ghettocooler.net/2008/03/17/ie6-ie7-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-50021 Bill Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:25:37 +0000 http://ghettocooler.net/2008/03/17/ie6-ie7-ie8/#comment-50021 Thanks Foxxyz This is what I suspected, and yet all the coverage seems to blame all the IE8 issues on web standards. The web is way deeper than it's presentation! Thanks Foxxyz

This is what I suspected, and yet all the coverage seems to blame all the IE8 issues on web standards. The web is way deeper than it’s presentation!

]]> By: foxxyz http://ghettocooler.net/2008/03/17/ie6-ie7-ie8/comment-page-1/#comment-49985 foxxyz Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:04:58 +0000 http://ghettocooler.net/2008/03/17/ie6-ie7-ie8/#comment-49985 Cross-browser Javascript really is much more of a mess than CSS is. I find that nearly 95% of my CSS works perfectly fine on IE7 and am pretty happy with the results overall. Mind you, that is with well-written CSS and proper semantic HTML. Like you said, it's just IE6 that needs a bit of an extra push (or two), but it's fine to handle that with the <code>'* html'</code> hack, which all other browsers ignore - as they should. I think it's a bit different with Javascript. It is those tiny changes to the DOM handling that are disastrous to AJAX apps like GMail and GMaps. Especially because all Google's JS was written by themselves and deals with all the tiny inconsistencies between browsers that obviously break when IE8 comes along. There's nothing to worry about for all of us spoiled with jQuery or Prototype. When IE8 comes out, so will a new version of those libraries and suddenly the internet will appear not to have changed too much at all. Mmmm, internet, how do you always stay so comfy and fluffy? Cross-browser Javascript really is much more of a mess than CSS is. I find that nearly 95% of my CSS works perfectly fine on IE7 and am pretty happy with the results overall. Mind you, that is with well-written CSS and proper semantic HTML. Like you said, it’s just IE6 that needs a bit of an extra push (or two), but it’s fine to handle that with the '* html' hack, which all other browsers ignore – as they should.

I think it’s a bit different with Javascript. It is those tiny changes to the DOM handling that are disastrous to AJAX apps like GMail and GMaps. Especially because all Google’s JS was written by themselves and deals with all the tiny inconsistencies between browsers that obviously break when IE8 comes along.

There’s nothing to worry about for all of us spoiled with jQuery or Prototype. When IE8 comes out, so will a new version of those libraries and suddenly the internet will appear not to have changed too much at all.

Mmmm, internet, how do you always stay so comfy and fluffy?

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