Re: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread Lea de Groot
Well, if you'd like some stats from a .au site with very much non-technical, typically Australian-sourced traffic: 1. Internet Explorer / Windows 44,549 80.32% 1. 7.0 23,965 53.77% 2. 6.0 20,507 46.01% 3. 5.5

RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread John Hancock
March 2008 7:01 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news - stats Well, if you'd like some stats from a .au site with very much non-technical, typically Australian-sourced traffic: 1. Internet Explorer / Windows 44,549 80.32% 1. 7.0 23,965 53.77

RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Boyd
business through Consulting, People and Technology From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2008 9:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats Consider that a fairly

Re: [WSG] IE8 news - stats

2008-03-09 Thread Ben Dodson
Consulting, People and Technology From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2008 9:05 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] IE8 news - stats Consider that a fairly significant

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-09 Thread Michael Horowitz
Your problem is government doesn't care about what works for users. I'm suprised it works on Firefox and IE 6 but not 7 as I thought 7 was more not less standards compliant. But most businesses that actually make money from the web will have to go with the market and work with the latest

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-08 Thread Kevin Arrowsmith
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of IceKat Sent: 08 March 2008 06:23 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Hey, I've been watching some of the IE8 conversations. I got it just yesterday and tried it. While it may pass the Acid2 test

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Andrew Maben
On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Michael MD wrote: when I look at the server logs here I still see almost as many IE6 users as IE7 users. This prompted me to look back at our logs (US public library: 10 branches, about a million circulating items, and in a town with a large state university

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread michael.brockington
I use XP on two different corporate networks. Both have auto-update blocked, and will remain on IE6 for the foreseeable future. I don't think this is uncommon, but we will need to wait and see. Until now, the general practice appears to be to support the latest two versions of IE, but I think for

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread aleagi
Hello Mike, I agree with you. There's a lot of users still working in obsolete machines or/by option, browsing with IE6. I think IE7 was a transition state to the web standards rendering, like Windows Me was to 98 from 2000. Microsoft likes to do things like that... I do believe that IE7 will

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Designer
Michael MD wrote: when I look at the server logs here I still see almost as many IE6 users as IE7 users. (the server logs are from a public events/nightlife website which gets a pretty diverse range of people visiting it) The following stats (representing 15694 users of all kinds) are for

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread Keryx Web
aleagi skrev: Hello Mike, I agree with you. There's a lot of users still working in obsolete machines or/by option, browsing with IE6. That would be all of my colleagues - and me if I want to access the intranet for our town. It won't work in MSIE 7 (and hence not in MSIE 8 with any

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-07 Thread IceKat
Hey, I've been watching some of the IE8 conversations. I got it just yesterday and tried it. While it may pass the Acid2 test flawlessly (and only be a beta) it takes up /masses/ of memory. My computer isn't exactly a dinosaur but it still paused whilst trying to type using IE8. How powerful

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Genau
How many time you guys think that will take to at least 70% of ie7 users update their browsers? I estimate 2/half years ... anyone can predict? - Original Message - From: aleagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [WSG

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Dodson
PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Yeap, it sucks! I'll find a solution to that! Regards, Luiz Gustavo Aleagi Nunes - Nosce te ipsum - http://sapiensdc.com.br

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread russ - maxdesign
How many time you guys think that will take to at least 70% of ie7 users update their browsers? I estimate 2/half years ... anyone can predict? Yes, I can predict. IE8 goes on-line August 4th, 2009. Human decisions are removed from strategic browser development. IE8 begins to learn, at a

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Paul Bennett
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/makeup/4303/t2script.txt 404! It's happening already! *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/03/06 20:09 (GMT) Ben Dodson apparently typed: My main hope is that the number of IE6 users will decrease rapidly as there are still over 20% of the market according to the W3C statistics. Apparently Microsoft were going to do a forced upgrade from IE6 to IE7 at the end of Feb but I

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Thomas Thomassen
@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news russ - maxdesign provided the following information on 7/03/2008 7:43 AM: I have detailed files: http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/makeup/4303/t2script.txt :) Russ Obviously not ;) Andrew

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Ben Dodson
The impact on XP is similar. Those not opting to allow WGA installation or attempt it but fail cannot upgrade from IE6. http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThisA=/article/08/01/17/Microsoft-warns-businesses-of-autoupdate-to-IE7_1.html I agree with you on W2K, but XP users

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-06 Thread Michael MD
How many time you guys think that will take to at least 70% of ie7 users update their browsers? I estimate 2/half years ... anyone can predict? probably longer. when I look at the server logs here I still see almost as many IE6 users as IE7 users. (the server logs are from a public

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Tate Johnson
On 04/03/2008, at 2:34 PM, John Hancock wrote: How can you disagree with a capability? Isn't it a feature to be used if you so choose? For intranets etc that you can force this behaviour can actually be a good thing, but if you don't like it, you don't have to use it! I agree with your

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Patrick Lauke
Tate Johnson I agree with your latter point. However, I fear that it protects lazy developers who refuse to adopt standards based practices. That said, the more and more you look at the community on the whole; it seems less ignorant today than at the start of the decade. The problem

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Christian Snodgrass
That's very true. Those that our party of the community are those that are aware and follow standards. And, I do disagree with compatibility indefinitely, such as having IE5's, or even IE6's rendering engine within IE8, because that does cause bloat. But, I can understand having IE7s, because

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm Wondering if this nukes IE7 and embeds itself into Windows, or if it can run standalone... P -- Patrick H. Lauke __

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread aleagi
Yeah, I'm afraid to install it and kick IE6 and 7 out of my box! Anyone with the guts to do it? @:D Regards. Aleagi . On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet?

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
may require security patch updates to complete. Hope to report soon on... :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Anybody

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thomas Thomassen
I got a spare computer to test this on. Thanks for the heads up about the availiblity of the beta. - Original Message - From: aleagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Yeah, I'm afraid to install

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread aleagi
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:26 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm Wondering if this nukes IE7

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread aleagi
the availiblity of the beta. - Original Message - From: aleagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Yeah, I'm afraid to install it and kick IE6 and 7 out of my box! Anyone with the guts to do

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
2 restarts later I have found the following: * it overwrites IE7 * it doesn't render anything in the tabs! * it has an 'emulate IE7' button (??) Best to hold off for now. If I get it sorted I'll let you all know. Paul *** List

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thomas Thomassen
as quetsionmakrs with a border around it. - Original Message - From: tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news I decided to be the brave and die first IE's victim :-) Very Bad! my IE 6 is gone, IE 7 standalone

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Viktor
As far as I know the emulate IE7 button forces the browser to render pages like IE7... [Microsoft also added a meta tag to choose which rendering version your visitors will use during their visit] Paul Bennett wrote: 2 restarts later I have found the following: * it overwrites IE7 * it

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Jason Gray
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aleagi Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2008 7:13 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Ok I got it installed... Since I don't had the last updates in my machine, IE8 forced me to do it. And I did... Now I can't have IE6, it's updated! I have IE7 standalone

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thomas Thomassen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news IE8 does provide a mode switch to IE7. There's a new button next to the home button. Though I'm not surpriced it nuked your IE6 installation. I gave it a go and tried some of my

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Horowitz
Setup a virtual machine and do it there. Much safer. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 aleagi wrote: Yeah, I'm afraid to install it and kick IE6 and 7 out of my box! Anyone with the guts to do it? @:D Regards. Aleagi . On Wed, Mar 5,

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Anybody installed the IE8beta1 yet? http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm Wondering if this nukes IE7 and embeds itself into Windows, or if it can run standalone... Ok, took the plunge. As already noted, it overwrites IE7,

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hi Thomas, One thing I noticed was some oddness with :hover behaviour I remember when IE7 came out (RC1 I think) I had to add [1] a:hover {} to the head of my documents else it didn't work at all. I added it within my @import statement with empty braces, like this: style type=text/css

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread James Ellis
Agreed, plenty of virtualisation software out there that makes problems like the ones reported just go away. In most VM's you could take a snapshot of Windows prior to install of IE8 then roll back to that snapshot when you are done with IE8 or until a workable standalone comes through. For

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Michael Horowitz wrote: Setup a virtual machine and do it there. Much safer. If you have spare WinXP installs, that is. Sadly a bit late, but I stumbled across these ready-made VirtualPC images from MS

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread James Ellis
I had this crazy idea that MS would allow developers to implement something like this so we could forget about the various furbar'd rendering engines MS produces and just run with something that works for those of us who code to, or try to code to, the various standards: meta name=engine

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thomas Thomassen
PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:01 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Hi Thomas, One thing I noticed was some oddness with :hover behaviour I remember when IE7 came out (RC1 I think) I had to add [1] a:hover {} to the head of my documents else it didn't

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Ben Dodson
] On Behalf Of aleagi Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2008 7:13 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news Ok I got it installed... Since I don't had the last updates in my machine, IE8 forced me to do it. And I did... Now I can't have IE6, it's updated! I have IE7 standalone

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
On Behalf Of Chris Knowles Subject: [WSG] IE8 news We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously.

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Bennett
Hi all, Sorry for the quick-fire posts. This just in: * if it doesn’t render when you start up the browser, you can open a new tab and then switch back to the first tab - this seems to 'wake up' the rendering engine * the 'emulate IE7' button allows you to switch between IE7 and IE8 rendering

RE: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread Thierry Koblentz
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Dodson The switch to IE7 mode is a good bonus to have but there are a few weird things such as the url in the address bar is always greyed out apart from the domain name which is a bit weird (and I can't quite understand why

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread aleagi
Ok, IE6 standalone from EVOLT are NOT browsing at all! It starts but ou can't navigate with it! http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/browsers.evolt.org/browsers/ie/32bit/standalone/ie6eolas_nt.zip I got IE6 back from Multiple IEs... http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE I've installed it all and

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-05 Thread aleagi
Yeap, it sucks! I'll find a solution to that! Regards, Luiz Gustavo Aleagi Nunes - Nosce te ipsum - http://sapiensdc.com.br On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:04 PM, tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I decided to be the brave and die first IE's victim :-)

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-04 Thread Brad Pollard
it to a new system would cause a great risk of bugs. - Original Message - From: "John Hancock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:34 AM Subject: Re: [WSG

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread Tate Johnson
On 04/03/2008, at 1:25 PM, Chris Knowles wrote: We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we've posted previously.

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread tee
I wonder id IE team from M$ sends the flower bouquets and chocolates to Mr Meyer and Mr Zeldman with Hallmark cards to apologize for putting them being bug guys by supporting that silly idea. Sorry, I just can't resist to asking this question. tee We've decided that IE8 will, by

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-principles-and-ie8.aspx That's awesome. A unified industry can move forward. Those who want to embrace it will get with the program, and those who don't can stay in IE7-ville until... well, until they get with the

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread Al Sparber
From: tee [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder id IE team from M$ sends the flower bouquets and chocolates to Mr Meyer and Mr Zeldman with Hallmark cards to apologize for putting them being bug guys by supporting that silly idea. Sorry, I just can't resist to asking this question. I don't think

Re: [WSG] IE8 news

2008-03-03 Thread Thomas Thomassen
AM Subject: Re: [WSG] IE8 news How can you disagree with a capability? Isn't it a feature to be used if you so choose? For intranets etc that you can force this behaviour can actually be a good thing, but if you don't like it, you don't have to use it! Microsoft has certainly responded here