Tag Archives: Microsoft

IE7 vs IE8

This is a followup of a post called Microsoft says IE8 is standards compliant. I think not.

I was testing my template on IE7 and IE8–along with a bunch of other browsers–when I noticed that IE7 rendered the pages of my test blog better than IE8. I took a few screenshots, but there are even more bugs than I could fit into this blog post.

First of all, I would like to say that I’m using IE7-JS to make my pages render better, but in the admin, there is no such thing, and I have IE7-JS set to work on all Internet Explorer versions.

The first thing I noticed was that floats did not work in IE8 on the galleries that are standard with WP2.5.

Microsoft says IE8 is standards compliant. I think not.

My browser collectionMicrosoft says IE8 is fully standards compliant. I beg to differ. As soon as I found out IE8 beta 1 was released, I downloaded it, installed it, and stuck it next to my other browsers (see left). I found it strange that a web browser would try to search for malicious programs while installing. I also was uncomfortable because the installer, unlike Firefox’s, asked me to restart my computer.

After I got the browser installed and restarted my computer, I pulled out the browser and looked at my test blog. Uh oh! I know instantly, IE8 is not all that Microsoft told us it

Windows Live Messenger… Online

[Windows Live Messenger Icon] Online statusNightgunner5 I am currently either online or offline, but either way, my status is shown in the little picture before my name. If you click on the image (or my name), you will be delivered to a page where you can instant message him… But you don’t even have to have Windows Live Messenger installed on your computer to do so!

You can will show up as yourself, if you have a live messenger-compatible account, or use an anonymous account. To use this great feature, go to this page. If

Surface

No, not the Microsoft surface, a virtual surface, or canvas to paint on.

I have been using it for quite a few of my programs (or what were almost programs) for a while now and I have decided to make it into a file that other programmers can use.

You can find it here