On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Mateusz Harasymczuk
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If someone moved out of the IE 6, then he/she move out of the IE 7, too.

while i agree, i found microsoft's tortuous path to standards full of
dark corners.

case in point: some time ago, i was using some simple <canvas> pages.
of course, to get them to work on IE6 & 7 i used excanvas.js, which
made a not-so-bad job.  some things were missing, but it was doable.

also, on IE7 i preferred to use 'standards mode', since it made some
CSS and box layouts not as bad as IE6

when IE8 came out, i tried it.  the new 'standards mode' was slightly
more standard CSS and box layouts; but excanvas.js just didn't work.
after some reading, i found that IE8 standards killed VML (the MS
alternative to SVG), which excanvas used to fake the canvas element.

finally, i had to force "IE7-standards mode"  everywhere.  effectively
disabling any IE8 advantage (nothing to weep about, fortunately).

tl;dr;  in my case, IE8 is less useful than IE7

-- 
Javier

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