It’s the day I have dreaded for quite awhile: the day we start officially supporting Internet Explorer 8 at work and I have to make our sites compatible with it. I guess one good thing is the Firebug-inspired tool inside Internet Explorer
We discussed discontinuing support of Internet Explorer 6, which I am all for. But I can’t quite let go of having it around for checking, since some people are still forced to use it – because of old operation systems or work restrictions. A recent Digg survey found that users couldn’t change to another browser because they had no administrator access to their computer, weren’t allowed to upgrade, or simply couldn’t upgrade because they were still running Windows 2000, ME, or 98. We decided not to support IE6 anymore in that we wont go out of our way to make things work in it, but will still check IE6 for major layout issues (box model issues, etc…) So I decided to update my IE7 to 8, and keep 6 running in my VM.
I still don’t know which is worse – Internet Explorer 6 or 8. I guess time will tell. I think my first challenge with IE8 will be dynamically created check boxes, which were not properly supported in previous versions of Internet Explorer.