Internet Explorer 8 Impacts?

[Koinonia]

Received this via e-mail yesterday. Any thoughts from Xara??

Koinonia

"Windows® Internet Explorer® 8 (IE8) will launch soon! Because Microsoft is committed to Interoperability Principles, Internet Explorer 8 renders content in the most standards-compliant way possible which means web pages will be displayed in Internet Explorer 8’s standards mode by default, potentially affecting the way your website is viewed. With the best interest of your business in mind and to keep disruptions to a minimum, we’d like to provide you with the simple steps below to ensure compatibility.

CHECKING COMPATIBILITY
• For those who outsource website management, please contact your developer/hoster to determine if
your website is Internet Explorer 8 compatible. And for more general information, please check here.

• For those who manage your own website, reference the Resource links below and/or the
following steps:
1. Download Internet Explorer 8 here.
2. Navigate to your website in the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
3. If pages look as they should, you’re done! If pages look different from how they did in Internet Explorer 7 or
don't work the same way, follow one of the following options:

• Preferred: Revise site content to support the standards-compliant default view for web
pages in Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 supports the HTML 4.01 Specification more closely than any previous version and
supports some features of the HTML 5 Specification. This release of Internet Explorer also offers
full support for CSS 2.1 and supports some popular features of CSS 3.0. For more information, please see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817575.aspx.

• Alternative: Tell Internet Explorer 8 to display your site in Internet Explorer 7 mode

1) On a per-site basis, add the HTTP header: X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

2) On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the <title> tag (and before
any other tags following <title>):
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

For more information, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc817570.aspx."

[covoxer]

What do you mean?

[Koinonia]

Has Xara tested their templates (or a sample) on the now available IE 8?

koinonia

[covoxer]

Yes, of course.

[steve.ledger]

Hi koinonia,

Just to reassure you, IE8 has been available for testing since March last year. The public release of RC1 in January has also mean't that it has become widespread since then.
A pre release candidate is also supplied with Windows7 Beta, also released to the public this year.

I can vouch that WD templates work fine with IE8 and that Xara Xtreme 4 and Web Designer even run fine on Windows 7 Beta.

[aridzone]

Just downloaded IE8 and everything works and displays as intended on old sites and new Xara WD sites
Good job IE and Xara!
Even loads faster

[Koinonia]

Thanks to all for a quick response!

koinonia