Comments on: Internet Explorer 8 and CSS3

By: Web Filter

Web Filter — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:47:00 +0000

Internet explorer is the best and famous browser for net surfing and provide many enhance and creative features.

By: Gary A.MacDonald

Gary A.MacDonald — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:21:42 +0000

Ok, IE8 a great browser! Even mentioning the name can get me into serious trouble in my circles yet alone with myself.

Sure the standards have increased, but its taken lets see, almost 3 years, and in the process, its still about 2 or 3 years behind.

Exciting? No. Its dribble. Trying to emulate Chrome, Firefox and other REAL browsers out there. Opera has more functionality than IE8.

No CSS3 compliant! My big beef! Designing pages for Chrome, Firefox and other REAL Browsers is great, but the biggest upset is IE8 in which you have to water things down so that the Sheep still using the sub-standard browser can use it.

By: alohatk

alohatk — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:38:14 +0000

internet explorer not support cc3 i waiting for IE9 to fix this problem, because many people in thailand use IE, according ie 87%, firefox 10% and google chome 3% i’m boring about this so much and i wish W3C have standard to protect war browser, sorry in my english.

By: Johann Blake

Johann Blake — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:48:14 +0000

I use several browsers but IE8 is my primary browser. IE8 does tend to render the majority of webpages more accurately than the other browsers even though it implements only half of the CSS3 standard. This is not surprising. Most websites are still built with CSS2.1 or earlier.

You can run a browser test against CSS3 at:
http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/test.html

Firefox, Chrome and Safari passed all the tests. IE8 didn’t even pass half of the tests and some CSS3 features are reported as buggy.

As a developer though, I use jQuery which is a Javascript library that relies heavily upon CSS3. Interestingly, jQuery produces better results than Firefox for those CSS3 features that are supported on IE8.

Microsoft used to be known for supporting the development of industry standards but that seems to have changed over the last several years. Today, volunteer developers are more eager to update Firefox with the latest CSS3 features than Microsoft is, in a quest to get the CSS3 accepted by the community at large.

Personally, I think that HTML, CSS and Flash are fading out. As Google Android continues to grow, web apps will be written for the native OS because only a native OS can deliver rich desktop UIs. It will be a while though before that becomes accepted by the masses but it has already started.

By: WebDeveloper14

WebDeveloper14 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:11:39 +0000

Now I’m not against Microsoft and am an avid Windows users, but from someone who creates webpages all day long, let me say this to your IE users:

If you use IE, you do not realize that you are missing many elements of that make the webpage look even better… rounded corners, box shadows, and even transparency in many situations all make for a better experience and make things easier to see. If you switch to a different browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari), you will likely notice many visual enhancements along along with even more speed improvements! I’ve had to completely remove transparency for IE on many websites because the transparency CSS filter caused the website to run ridiculously slow.

I often use CSS3 rules when creating websites knowing that IE users won’t see them. It’s just that the time it takes to add rounded corners or box shadows that work with IE is often not worth the effort… thus leaving a much flatter webpage for IE users.

Getting a web browser that supports the accepted standards would be worth the upgrade for more reasons than one!

By: Marlon

Marlon — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:36:03 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 is really good. This browser is very very stable and i have been using it for quite a while without blue screens or crashes.

By: ISLANDSURFERBOY

ISLANDSURFERBOY — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:12:46 +0000

IE8 has issues – will not display navigation bars on websites created by publisher. Why? Don’t know. Will show up on IE 7 and Safari. Have contacted several friends that have IE8 & the same – No navigation bars. Why? Still trying to fix – I need help!

By: Razel

Razel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:43:13 +0000

i love Internet Explorer 8 because it is so much stable that the previous versions of IE. IE7 sometimes freezes and causes blue screens on my PC.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:08:32 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 is so much better than the previous version of internet explorer browser. it is more stable and loads faster.

By: Acnerdz

Acnerdz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:36:12 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 seems to be the best browser for me. I can open more than 20 windows simultaneously without crashing. IE7 and IE6 is unstable that if you open more than windows at a time it just freezes or causes the blue screen.