Re: Internet Explorer 8

**ZaBoo** · 07-05-2009, 09:43 AM

As it has turned into half of a web-dev thread, use IETester for your IE testing. IE5.5-8 all in one small, easy to use package.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

You don't just have to choose one.

**Steamers** · 07-05-2009, 09:46 PM

I have to agree that IE8 doesn't fair really well. IE7 crashes sometimes but IE8 just takes the cake. I wanted tabbed browsing so i'm left with IE7 now. Didn't like FF much. Program starts even slower than the IEs, and watching streaming videos are just about the same.

**El_Gringo_Grande** · 07-06-2009, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by ScratchMonkey

So do you not have clients whose customers are big glacial corporations still running IE6? My worry in creating a company website is that the customers are using IE6 and won't see it correctly.

Have you deployed any SVG yet? I'd love to have vector art that stays crisp with resizing, but the level of support for it remains very uneven and even Mozilla is buggy. (Support for scaling SVG is iffy, and versatile scaling is kinda the whole point of using it.)

All our customers are school districts. Small districts at that. We hold their hand through everything so they use the software we recommend.

We don't have much of a need for highly graphic interfaces so no SVG. We concentrate on efficiency so that we can host as many schools with minimum servers. Programming for government entities isn't exciting but it is stable.