{"id":571,"date":"2009-06-10T19:12:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/?p=571"},"modified":"2009-06-10T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T00:12:41","slug":"well-got-the-upgrade-to-ie8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/well-got-the-upgrade-to-ie8\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, got the upgrade to IE8."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and as I expected, half the web is broken now. Good thing for me, I only use IE for testing my sites. I mostly use Firefox for my own browsing, like most web designers.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was really in a no-win situation (granted, of their own making) with IE8&#8217;s rendering engine, so I&#8217;m not going to curse at them too much (no promises on whether or not I&#8217;ll curse at the browser itself). I&#8217;m working on finding the necessary css hacks and javascript changes for making things work again. My own sites mostly just seem to have positioning problems for a few elements, luckily, but I&#8217;ll include whatever I find that is still valid css in my <a href=https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/reference\/tricks\/#css_hacks>css hacks reference<\/a> section. As always, that&#8217;s mostly for my own reference but you&#8217;re welcome to use anything you find there.<\/p>\n<p>One shining light: there might actually finally be a way to test your pages in IE6, IE7 and IE8 without having to resort to registry hacks or incomplete rendering engines. <a href=http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/expression\/features\/Default.aspx?key=webpreview target=_blank>Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview<\/a> claims to let you view in IE6 and whatever version of IE you have installed (since IE8 includes an IE7 viewing mode, both IE7 and IE8 are available).<\/p>\n<p>I just downloaded it. I&#8217;ll post my impressions after I try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and as I expected, half the web is broken now. Good thing for me, I only use IE for testing my sites. I mostly use Firefox for my own browsing, like most web designers. Microsoft was really in a no-win &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/well-got-the-upgrade-to-ie8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","category-web-design","tag-browser_incompatibility","updates","web-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crysodenkirk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}