{"id":60,"date":"2009-03-19T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gavtaylor.co.uk\/?p=60"},"modified":"2009-05-10T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T08:38:25","slug":"say-hello-to-microsoft-internet-explorer-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/say-hello-to-microsoft-internet-explorer-8","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello to Microsoft Internet Explorer 8&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have today announced the release of their new version of popular web browser Internet Explorer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/internet-explorer\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">available for download<\/a> from 4pm (GMT) today (Thursday).<br \/>\nVersion Eight of the browser brings a host of new features and finally a welcome addition of a web standards rendering engine. A full list of features and more information on the browser can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/internet-explorer\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft&#8217;s IE homepage <\/a>or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/ie\/default.mspx\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">their development blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this will release will mark the end of Internet Explorer 6, the bane of website developers everywhere, IE6 is almost 8 years old and now 2 versions behind the stable release, so people still running it are compromising their security with outdated software and disrupting their online experience by using a browser riddled with bugs.<\/p>\n<p>I for one am taking this opportunity to draw a line in the sand and will no longer test my site designs in IE6, I will also be adding a small pop-up message to alert users visiting via IE6 that while they are welcome, they are visiting the site using outdated software and the site may not be compatible, I will also be providing a link to upgrade to IE8 <em>(would be rude not to add a Firefox link as well ;-))<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>(16\/04\/09 @ 22:04)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>True to my word, if you now visit my website in Internet Explorer versions 7 or below, you will get an Information bar pop-up advsiing to update your browser.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft have today announced the release of their new version of popular web browser Internet Explorer, available for download from 4pm (GMT) today (Thursday). Version Eight of the browser brings a host of new features and finally a welcome addition of a web standards rendering engine. A full list of features and more information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[29,41],"tags":[27,71,58,30,303],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gavtaylor.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}