Microsoft acknowledges that there were many bugs in IE6 and IE7, and promises IE8 will be much more standards-compliant. In order to make it act in a more standards-compliant way, however, you will have to include a non-standard tag in your HTML HEAD section. Otherwise it will continue to act like the pieces of bloated crapware that IE6 and IE7 were.

Thanks for the big “fuck you”, Microsoft. How about paying everyone back for all the time they’ve wasted dealing with your crappy browsers?

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Love it or hate it… well… does anyone really love Internet Explorer?

But you have to live with it, at least if you’re doing web development, because it’s necessary to test against it. It’s so buggy that many people code first against it, make their site work on it (given that it has the bulk of the browser market share) and then try to get their site working with other, less buggy, more standards-compliant browsers without breaking their Internet Explorer compatibility.

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Internet Explorer is often the bain of the web developer’s existence. Read the standards, see how it’s supposed to be done, and then try to figure out how to coerce Internet Explorer into doing it while still getting other browsers to work correctly.

Microsoft fumbled the ball after Internet Explorer 6 - they rested on their market share as it slowly eroded. They’re now planning to release Internet Explorer 8 only a couple of years after 7 was released, according to an article at The Register. Apparently they still haven’t decided that standards are really important.

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So I had my Wordpress theme worked out using the “3 Column Fluid Layout” that I mentioned in an earlier article, and I tested it with Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 6 and it looked the way it should. I skimped on testing it with Internet Explorer 7 because I didn’t have space on my MacBook Pro for another Parallels disk image for IE 7. So, of course, it worked poorly with IE 7.

What was I thinking? What, IE 7 might have a bug?

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