I love Point 8 - Compatibility: Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.

It's spin for: We've abused our market position to disregard standards to the detriment of competition, so you're stuck with us forever.

IE is decent (its not perfect, but deacent) enough i never bothered with any other browser. However i still have chrome installed as well for that one site/month that i see and doesnt work in IE.

I mainly use IE but I always have firefox installed just to check the webpages I put together work in everything else. I hate having to deal with 'double-standards' whilst coding php and the alike.

All the css hacks involved just so a page looks right in IE is bad. If MS made there browser follow the standards to start with, I doubt I would have Firefox installed at all.

Hmm...why don't I perform my own little test? It's called Acid3 (we all know it, but apparently not MS). Blah blah blah, test complete, lets see the results shall we!

Firefox/Minefield: 94%
Chrome: 99%
Opera: 100%
IE8: 12%

Bravo! :)

I wonder how much Microsoft payed ars technica to publish such non-sense article...
IE 8, is no match against Firefox, chrome or safari.

In fact, i had few of my mates saying that, IE 7, is much better and faster than IE 8.

ACID TEST
IE8 = 12%.

How come, when pages are coded poorly everyone blames the browsers lol? Yes other browsers might error-handle better but pages should be checked before-hand! It's an invalid arguement if you ask me.. :)



AcidTest coders fail:
Firefox results for the called XML script @ Test

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </p>.
Location: Test
Line Number 6, Column 32: <p> <strong/> Parsing Test </strong> </p>
-------------------------------^

IE8 results for the called XML script @
Test

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. End tag 'strong' does not match the start tag 'p'. Error processing resource 'http://acid3.acidtests.org/xhtml.2'. Line 6,...
<p> <strong/> Parsing Test </strong> </p>-------------------------------^

And here's the result of a 'Markup Validation' at the W3C...
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://acid3.acidtests.org/xhtml.2 - W3C Markup Validator

AcidTest also has some purposely built in errors to also test a browser's error handling capabilities. I think IE will pull off a 60% in Acid3 by the time other browsers are acing Acid9.