https://nostuff.org/archive/tags/flock/ Recent content in Flock on nostuff.org archive | Chris Keene Hugo en-gb Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:35:27 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2008/web-browsers/ Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:35:27 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2008/web-browsers/ <p>Today was a browser day.</p> <p>Installed the IE8 beta. Not much to say on this. It looks very like IE7. has improved standards compliance compared with other versions of IE. I had read that there were problems due to the way if renders pages compared with IE6 and 7 (i.e. closer to the standard). However I was surprised how true this is, for example the University I work at does not do any browser specific stuff, you get the same html/css regardless, yet IE8 seems to have problems rendering certain elements. The logo often appeared in the wrong place (but would jump to the right place when you moved the mouse over it), sometimes a navigation bar at the top would appear twice, or with a gap between it and the top of the browser. Yet Firefix, Opera and Safari (all fairly good at complying with standards) all show these pages without problems, so why would IE8 be any different. I only visited a few more sites, but again odd little problems were showing up. Also of note, the beta has a developer meny pre-installed, looks useful for browsing html/css etc.</p>