> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: > > > tee wrote: > > > >> Sorry for my ignorant, is IE8 out? > > > > Yes, as of March 19th. > > > > Keep an eye on a site like this... > > <http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/> > > ...and you'll at most only be a few days off regarding new releases. > > Georg, thanks. > > I have developed a work fatigue symptom that I don't want to deal with > any beta version of browsers until they finally arrived. > > Strange that Microsoft is a bit shy with the new release because I > have not been prompted to update the browser each time I turned on the > PC. None of my clients' sites that I have access to their analytics, > show IE 8 stats, except mine.
Shy no; more careful. Forcing major version updates on day 1 is generally risky. Security updates are treated differently. More info on Windows Update plans for IE8: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/06/ie8-blocker-toolkit-available-today.aspx > Good news is, all sites are rendering properly as I expected them be, > except one that the jQuery slide show is showing the exact problem as > I saw in IE6 and 7. > > A heads up, I was using Classic View for my Vista, in IE8 with > standard mode the sites all had a few paddings/margins issue in a > number of pages where absolute position is declared, and on few areas > where there is darken background color with lighter 1px horizontal > line, the line turns to solid white. Soon as I switched to Vista > View, all these problems disappeared. Is the URL for this so I can escalate to IE8 team? Nick Hodge Professional Geek, Microsoft Australia ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
