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Internet Explorer 8 Released, Still no Animated GIF

Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 released to the public as of this morning, thanks to Nick for notifying me. Much better if you are a developer that needs to support the IE platform, or want gimmicks such as web slices. Too bad the animated GIFs is still not working, which I think would probably break quite a few web apps.

Category: Quickies, Technology | Fri, 20 March 2009 10:06 am
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Posted by scotty on Fri, 20 March 2009 10:21 am

Here is a tip for developers. In IE7, when you click on the IE icon on your app launcher, it will automatically use a different session, i.e. two IE processes don’t share the same cookie jar. However this behaviour has changed in IE8 — multiple IE8 processes are sharing cookie jars by default. To restore to the old behaviour (which is very useful when you are testing a site or an app with two different credential at the same time), add -nomerge to the command line.


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Posted by William Lukman on Fri, 20 March 2009 3:46 pm

I have not had a chance to use it myself yet. Received this tip from a friend:

If things that worked in IE7 suddenly do not work in IE8 anymore and a
workaround is required: there is a new meta tag that tells IE to use the IE7
rendering engine:


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Posted by Steven on Fri, 20 March 2009 6:21 pm

IE8 still didn’t pass the AcidTest3…. I stick with Firefox and Safari!


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Posted by Acnerdz on Sat, 12 September 2009 1:33 am

Internet Explorer 8 seems to be the best browser for me. I can open more than 20 windows simultaneously without crashing. IE7 and IE6 is unstable that if you open more than windows at a time it just freezes or causes the blue screen.


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