Microsoft’s new browser – Internet Explorer 8 – will be made available to Windows Update users within the next 10 days. If you can’t wait for that, you can download the final version from Microsoft right now.
If you’re a Gruden customer and you’re wondering if the site we built for you will look like a mess when your users view it with Internet Explorer 8, we have some good news – you can relax!
We’ve spent the last couple of weeks checking all our clients’ sites with Internet Explorer 8, looking for:
- Usability – making sure all elements of a template were still useable and visible
- Template rendering – making sure the design did not change noticeably between IE7 and IE8
We found only minor issues with a couple of sites.
So why the great results? The main reason is this new version of Internet Explorer is more standards compliant than the previous versions – and we always build web pages with web standards in mind.
One of the main goals of following web standards is to ensure that website code does not need to be rewritten as traditional desktop browsers evolve, and this is exactly what has been avoided here.
Gruden has been involved in the web standards community since the start of the Web Standards Group back in 2003. We’ve even been busy translating web standards articles into Chinese and Portuguese!
