[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

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In article <4b4e7946$0$279$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>On 13-01-2010 08:50, AEF wrote:
>> I actually tried IE8 at work, hoping it would be better than IE6. But
>> it was blurrier on the monitor. I checked it on others' machines and
>> the blurriness varied, and all the monitors were ViewSonics. (I did
>> only check 2 or 3 others, but mine was blurrier than IE6 and that's
>> all that really mattered to me.) So I went back to IE6. And I did
>> check if you could do that before I tried IE8. It turns out that all
>> you have to do is uninstall it, except that a certain OS patch would
>> get in the way if you have it and you'd have to uninstall that first,
>> then reinstall after expunging IE8 from your machine.
>>
>> I do have Firefox installed at work and I use that for some sites, but
>> others work better on IE6. Hate the spastic Find function in IE6, but
>> at least you can use it to highlight a link, or get near it with an
>> easier target and then tab to the link, and without the mouse just
>> press Return and it works! Safari can't do that, but Safari is better
>> with multiple choice items in forms and for printing. Safari puts all
>> the print params on a single page! I've never understood why all the
>> important things like page size, orientation, number of copies,
>> certain things on the Page Setup dialog box and such aren't all in one
>> place. WHY THE HELL DON'T THEY PUT THEM ALL IN ONE PLACE LIKE SAFARI
>> DOES? Arghhhh.
>
>IE6 is pretty bad in AJAX context due to its deviation
>from the standards. IE8 is a lot better. It actually passed
>ACID2.

Let me know when it can pass ACID3.  AFAIK, only Safari does so.  Firefox is
close.  It gets to 93/100.

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