When a new browser comes out, like IE8, the verdict usually rolls in over the course of a few weeks as our QA testing on various web projects bumps up against its limitations. It’s too early for us to render a verdict, but the signs have not been good and continue to be negative.
The evidence continues to trickle in. Louis-Rémi Babé weighs in with his grim assessment:
- The JavaScript performance on IE8 is still lousy.
- Useful tags such as
<canvas>, <svg>, <video>are still missing. - CSS3 is minimally supported. (I agree that this is good news for web developers since we get to charge more money for all the extra effort that goes into IE8 work.)
To top it all off, Vector Markup Language (VML) is freshly broken. It’s one of those sad and frustrating stories. Read up on it here and feel sorry for all of those framework developers who have to crowbar in several hacks for all of the garbage in IE8.
