Thanks for all the good feedback on this! :-)

On 2/3/09 8:25 PM, "John Dowdell" <jdowd...@adobe.com> wrote:

> Vayu Robins wrote, when finding that an existing HTML site was reported
> to not render correctly in this week's IE8 release candidate:
>> Does anybody have any comments on this? Should I download the IE8 version
>> and find the problem?  I am on a mac, using Parallels Desktop, Windows XP.
> 
> I've heard other reports of newer HTML clients not supporting existing
> websites, but I haven't tracked the pre-release details. Best resource I
> know of for user-experience changes is the IE team's own weblog:
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
> 
> That said, it may be a client/developer contractual agreement about
> which browsers to test against. If they specified IE6 and IE7 for the
> Microsoft-branded browsers, then it doesn't seem quite fair to suddenly
> add another version (particularly a pre-release) to that matrix. But if
> the required clientside runtimes were not specified in the original
> contract, then that could make things stickier... it sounds like they
> accepted the project, then wanted to make changes after the project was
> "finished". Tricky problem!  :(
> 
> jd
> 
> 
> 
> 


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