Internet Explorer is back! Hear the inside story behind the development of Internet Explorer 8, and see how to develop innovative user experiences with Web Slices, Accelerators, and Visual Search. Discover nearly twenty new security enhancements that make browsing safer than ever, and find out about performance improvements that will help you build faster AJAX applications. Finally, see why Internet Explorer 8 is one of the most standards-compliant Web browsers on the market.
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Giorgio SardoGiorgio Sardo is a Technical Evangelist in Microsoft Corporation. Moving from Italy to the United States, he studied at Polytechnic of Turin and successfully obtained a Master of Computer Engineering with distinction. Before joining Microsoft, Giorgio leaded a national university community forum in Italy and won the Imagine Cup worldwide championship. He started his experience in Microsoft UK as User Experience Consultant, delivering stunning solutions based on Silverlight, WPF and Mobile and presenting several sessions at Microsoft conferences. In 2008 he has been nominated Best Consultant of the Year from the British Computer Society. Early 2009 Giorgio moved to Redmond, where he currently focuses on Web Client technologies, such as Internet Explorer and ASP.Net AJAX. His blog is blogs.msdn.com/Giorgio.
3 Comments
brandon said
April 17, 2009
IE8 in Standards mode is *****NOT***** 100% CSS 2.1 compliant!
This was discussed over and over on the IE Blog, in the IE Chats, and in the IE Feedback Bugs on Connect.
IE8 is ****very**** close, but DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CLAIM 100% COMPLIANCE!
Developers HATE hearing lies from Vendors... it doesn't instill a whole lot of confidence when WE KNOW otherwise.
mark said
April 27, 2009
brandon, I think that the speaker's message here is that IE8 pass 100% of the CSS 2.1 tests contributed to W3C....while other browsers (including Firefox, Safari or Chrome...) are just 75-85%.
I agree with you that there will never be a 100% std compliant browser, by definition.
At least in this case I appreciate (finally) MS efforts to move and lead in that direction with IE8...
UGGS said
September 11, 2009
I think a nice add-on have not tested it but thanks for sharing