[Web4lib] Browser ennui

[Thomas Edelblute]

I think it is great the IE8 is finally on board with the W3C standards.  Of course this means that some site that were specifically designed for IE may have problems with IE8 now, but there is supposed to be a button that reverts to IE7-style rendering for those sites.  I will have to try that out when I get my test machine repaired.

Thomas Edelblute
Public Access Systems Coordinator
Anaheim Public Library


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dowling
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:14 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] Browser ennui

In the last couple of weeks, new betas have come out for Safari (4.0b1
on 2/24), Firefox (3.1b3 on 3/12), and Chrome (2.0b1 on 3/17), and IE8
was officially released today.  Once upon a time, any one of those
releases would have stirred up an active discussion on Web4Lib, but no
more.  I wonder if that's because we decided all browsers were good
enough, more or less; or because we decided no browser is very
interesting any more; or because we were forced to accept that "The
Browser" is whatever version of whichever program IT deigns to plop on
our machines.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu



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