Internet explorer 8 released.. at diversity.net.nz

News this morning that IE8 has been released to the general public. I’ve always used Firefox but thought Id give IE8 a test drive. Very initial feedback is showing that it’s pretty fast - Xero tended to be a little slow through Firefox 2, IE8 speeds it up significantly - I have no idea why but there ya go.

Wordpress, the software running this blog, works really badly with IE8 so I’m not sure how long-lived this change will be.

Anyone else have anything to report?

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1 redjungle
Mar 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am

It’s probably worth noting that it’s actually IE8 Beta 1 - rather than a final release as the headline implies
2 Ben Kepes
Mar 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am

Cheers Phil - Point taken
3 M Freitas
Mar 6th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

And also it says “for web developers and designers” in the page, just to make clear it’s a preview, not a full release.
4 Ben Kepes
Mar 6th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

I thought in this day of Web 2.0 we were all web designers and developers
5 M Freitas
Mar 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Well, then you hear a lot of people screaming “IE8 broke my computer” when this is certainly not something for them… I was actually planning to write about this.
6 Ben Kepes
Mar 6th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

Fair call MF - For what it’s worth I’m still running Firefox 3 (developers release). Neither IE8 nor Firefox3 have caused any problems thus far

I promise not to blame mozilla or MS if they do!

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