HTML 5 and IE8
March 15th, 2008For the first time in, well… a long time, I’m actually interested in getting a beta version of IE.
So far, I’ve spotted what looks like support for HTML 5 CSS transitions (physics-based animation of CSS properties), some document messaging thing which I haven’t played with yet, and client-side storage (SQL based persistent storage).
Thanks to Parallels, I can investigate safely inside a VM without blowing up my test versions of IE6 or IE7. I can’t believe I’m actually looking forward to downloading IE. I hope Steve Jobs will forgive me.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’m not going to forgive you Dave. Either uninstall IE 8 and forget you ever saw it or return your Mac to the store in the next week.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Wait… which Mac? (please don’t say the MacBook Pro, please don’t say the MacBook Pro…)
May 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
IE8 CSS selector support isn’t much of an improvement over IE7 or IE6.:before, :after, [attribute=value] and lang() are the only improvements there. http://www.evotech.net/blog/2008/05/browser-css-selector-support/
I’ll be testing properties and values soon. Hopefully they’ve done a better job in that regard.