Comments on: IE8 ISSUES

By: a lurker

a lurker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:58:54 +0000

Use the following codes (hoping wordpress won't do something funny).

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By: a lurker

a lurker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:56:29 +0000

I use Firefox and your smart quotes are all rendering to a bunch of garbage. I just fired up IE8 and it is the same. Please use dumb quotes and apostrophes or learn how to correctly code them in valid HTML please because neither Firefox or IE have any problem rendering correctly coded smart quotes.

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By: Parrotlover77

Parrotlover77 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:20:35 +0000

Wow who knew so much completely unwarranted hatred toward MS was still out there.

IE8 Standards mode is, just that, standards compliant. If your site works in IE compatibility but NOT standards, you are not standards compliant. The only reason it works in Firefox is because Firefox's default rendering mode is more forgiving.

Remember, IE8 went full-on standards due to numerous complaints from website owners who wanted full-on standards. You reap what you sow.

Whatever you did isn't working.

To force IE-7 rendering, put the following line in the HEAD:
meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"

(I'm not sure if your blog will EAT the GT/LT brackets, so i left them off)

More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(VS.85).aspx

By: StephenM.

StephenM. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:32:35 +0000

Ed,
Whatever you did it works just fine now on IE8 as far as I can see. I know it's fun to bash Microsoft stuff but alot of us just aren't into computers/applications that much to really care if it's MS IE8 (or 7, or 6 or …) we just buy the thing, take it hoem, plug it in and want it to work. Our priorities (wrongly or rightly) are directed toward other things in our lives. That said, THANK YOU very much for addressing this isue in very quick and competent manner.

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:20:21 +0000

IE8

I would be embarrassed by my typing, but the sad truth is my penmanship is even worse.

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:18:43 +0000

Well, without resorting to egregious namecalling, might I point out the Firefox is Fucking FREE!

Also, free of IE* Problems.

Side links show on the home page, do not show on views of individual posts.

Cheers!
JzB the non-Bill-Gates-hurting trombonist

By: Jex

Jex — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:28 +0000

Here at work we're running IE 7, so I haven't had any problems with the absence of white space. I did just notice that all the side links have now disappeared. Has it been that way for a while?

By: tommytimp

tommytimp — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:49:33 +0000

Well, Comrade PhysioProf, it's because some of us fuckwit cockdoucheweaselmonkeys running IE8 do the taxpayin' and the Web surfin' and the lovin' and the fightin' and the livin' and dyin' in this town!!!

But no, it still isn't fixed.

By: Kulkuri

Kulkuri — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:02:54 +0000

In yesterday's AJC, in the computer advice column, there was a letter saying a guy installed IE8 and could not read his business e-mail. His wife's computer had IE7, so he would use that to read his e-mails. We bought this confuser last winter and haven't updated the browser and that must be why we don't have a problem with reading your blog.