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Guys, this was really supposed to be a topic about how yet another version of IE was going to affect us as developers, not a debate on OSes.

Sorry, I got a little carried away. Was not my intension to “brag” about my prefered platform.

About the IE8 discussion:
New version or not, we will still need to do special coding for IE-platform.
I heard the term “Superstandard compliant” about the rendering in IE8 (from the MSDN developer blog I think). What is so hard for the IE team?
There is a set of web standards, just follow them and don’t let the webdevelopers do their dirty work.

STANDARDS MODE = Web Standards Compliant
QUIRKS MODE = NON Web Standards Compliant, meaning IE7, IE6, IE5, IE4, etc etc etc etc etc.

Every browser got a “Quirks mode” regarding to the IE team. They just forget that they invented it…

Guys, this was really supposed to be a topic about how yet another version of IE was going to affect us as developers, not a debate on OSes. 

Whether we develop on a Mac or a PC, we still have to deal with the fact that we’ll have to use IE to test our applications, since a majority of the world’s users use that application.

Sorry ‘bout that…

I stand by my previous statement though…. MS should stay out of the browser game.

I tried to convince my old employers that we should stop supporting IE6 a long time ago but they said it was a no-go because that even though home users may not use IE6 all of the Win2k Pro users and servers can’t upgrade to IE7.

I agree, no matter which platform, we still have to test for it… *depending on the site*

Me, half the time I am tempted to write a plain bare text, no graphics at all version of my site for the IE6 users.

Yeah, I have loads of opinions on MS and their browsers.

Again, sorry for the hi-jack.

I have created a theme chooser in my site and works perfectly in iphone, firefox, opera all latest versions but it doesn’t work in ie8. It loads default theme even i choose magicland theme. Everything happens in the backend about template setting after selection.

What would be the reason for ie8 to work this stragely?

i’m using jquery to set template. The page reloads fine, only problem is, it doesn’t set selected template.

Does anyone know about jquery + ie8 issue?

Does anyone know any tool like firebug to see ajax action. like what is being posted and what is being returned?

http://www.codefight.org

Thanks.

UPDATE: Fixed.

Changed:

<select name="template" id="template">
    <option<?php if($template=='default') echo ' selected="selected"'; ?>>default</option>
    <option<?php if($template=='magicland') echo ' selected="selected"'; ?>>magicland</option>
</select>

To:

<select name="template" id="template">
    <option value="default"<?php if($template=='default') echo ' selected="selected"'; ?>>default</option>
    <option value="magicland"<?php if($template=='magicland') echo ' selected="selected"'; ?>>magicland</option>
</select>

Fixed the issue by defining option value. Looks like ie8 doesn’t read value between tags.

Thanks to tvanfosson.

for the IE8 haters

Thanks for the link, xwero. 

I notice that IE8.1 is supposed to make 71/100 on the acid3.  And they think that is passing with flying colors. 

All the other major browsers already have a version out or in testing that already passes 100/100. 

If IE8.1 is that close to release, and going to be that much improved, then perhaps they should have waited to release IE8 and gone straight to IE8.1.  Releasing IE8 just puts one more IE out there where people won’t upgrade from it once they have it, and it will cause havoc with web standards for years. 

If they would just wait until they get it right to release a product, it would be nice.

Of course it’s a april 1st joke.
You had me until “Exploring serverside code” 😊

Not the firefox plugins, which are based on xul/fuel/other mozilla code?

Actually, the ACID test made me suspicious! 😊

Super-standards-mode is great… not.
What’s wrong with following the current standard?

:sick: ‘nuff said.