Comments on: IE8 Launches: Do Web Workers Even Care?

By: Microsoft and IE: Getting Desperate?

Microsoft and IE: Getting Desperate? — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:01:51 +0000

[...] has slipped from 34 percent of visitors to 28 percent over the past year, and that’s despite the release of IE8 in the meantime. Unless Microsoft can release an improved browser, gimmicks like this competition will not get [...]

By: kasnj

kasnj — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:02:28 +0000

Yes, for testing purposes. But only after someone posts the solution to installing IE8 while keeping older versions.

By: rb3m

rb3m — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:35:03 +0000

Of course. For development and testing I must, even though my main browser is Firefox and dabble occasionally in Chrome my browser stable includes pretty much anything I can get my hands on, including stuff like Lynks, even if just to make sure my sites don’t break on them.

Some of my older machines are still in use running older versions of IE (5 and 6 mostly) and Netscape 4 (and Tie Fighter, but the real reason are the browsers ;) )

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:18:48 +0000

Will you download IE8?
Perhaps. After a few weeks.
FF is just fine for now.

By: Skip

Skip — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:21:50 +0000

At my institution, nearly all the IE users are so for one of two reasons. It came with the machine so they just use it without thinking. Or they use it because some specific enterprise app requires it (or claims to require it).

Nearly everyone who makes a conscious choice chooses Firefox or Safari or Chrome.

This is not a formula for market success for Microsoft.

As for me, I join with the others here: I could scarcely care less. And I’m the webmaster of a university.

By: Chris Rice

Chris Rice — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:50:03 +0000

Microsoft releases IE8. World says: “Meh”.

By: Ben Overmyer

Ben Overmyer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:41:00 +0000

I’ll download it.

Often, I will want to check something on the web, and don’t want to wait the hour and a half for Firefox (with all my developer and social media addons) to load.

When that happens, I either use IE or Chrome, depending on what computer I’m on. I like IE8′s Web Slices and its Accelerators.

Different browsers for different purposes, for me.

By: vilu

vilu — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:35:25 +0000

No I won’t download it. What for?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:50:01 +0000

While it won’t displace my current brower (Firefox) it is definitely a huge step forward for Internet Explorer.

By: John Carson

John Carson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:44:41 +0000

Hey Todd, just noticed your comment.

I think I’m your target audience, and as I said, use IE. If I saw a message such as that, would think it too presumptuous, dismissive and pretty smug.

By: John Carson

John Carson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:41:01 +0000

Yeah, downloaded it. I am probably one of the only IE / Windows fans in the world; have always got what I needed from IE.

But, I do also use FF, Chrome and Safari on certain sites as I find they are faster, but not all the time.

@johncarson

By: Robert S. Robbins

Robert S. Robbins — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:21:34 +0000

Internet Explorer 8™ includes significant improvements for web developers so of course I’ll be installing it. Web workers who don’t care will be joining the unemployed.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:46:28 +0000

Unfortunately, I have to care because I still get traffic from IE users. But I’ve considered not making tweaks for IE compatibility and just posting a message saying, “If you’re viewing this site in Internet Explorer, you’re not my target audience”

By: St. George

St. George — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:43:40 +0000

I use firefox always unless something won’t load without IE. FF is so much easier to use.

By: Stanley

Stanley — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:22:12 +0000

It doesn’t offer me anything personally, but it does represent a potential future of no longer needing to include conditional comments, specialized stylesheets, or CSS hacks in order to address non-compliance.

In that regard, it’s not the *launch* that I care about… but I will be watching adoption rates and hope that I’ll get to stop supporting 6 (and maybe even 7) sometime in the next year or two.

By: Walter Wimberly

Walter Wimberly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:21:23 +0000

At my main job I have to use IE for two web apps or they don’t work. The only other reason for me to use IE (any version) is to test what my web designs look like in IE. Otherwise I use FF and Chrome.

I like Chromes memory management, but not having Ad Blocker on it, makes loading pages soooooooo sloooooooooow.

I’ll install IE8 when I see enough people using it to worry about it from a designs point of view.