Is your site suitable for IE8 access?

During the Olympic Games, IE 8 Beta 2 will be released, and with the English version of the release, the Chinese version will also be published in the first wave.

IE 8 will be the most important release of Internet Explorer history, with the exception of the Chinese traditional auspicious number "8", most notably its compatibility with the standard has been significantly enhanced, which for web developers, The biggest convenience is that you don't have to develop different CSS for each browser (or even a different version of a browser) to adapt. In the future, Web developers only need to be compatible with the standards of the consortium, without having to focus too much on the dissimilarity of different browser standards. The release time is imminent, then your website is ready?

　 1) Compatibility Considerations

The current site for a variety of historical reasons, may be different browser settings for different CSS files. For IE 8, perhaps most of the site is not ready. Perhaps many friends know that IE 8 has a "switch IE 7 emulation mode" button, and in Beta 1 and Beta 2, this button is set in the default selected state. However, when IE 8 is officially released, the button defaults will be unselected, which means that if a site does not do any homework preparation, in IE 8 will be in strict mode to often parse CSS.

Some time ago, when I met with my partner, I used the strict mode of IE 8 Beta 2 to browse through most of the partners ' Web pages, there will be more or less distortion of the problem, so that the site can not be properly browsed. If your website has not done the IE 8 compatibility test, we recommend that you download IE 8 Beta 1 as soon as possible, and switch it to IE 8 Strict mode to browse your website.

If you find a problem and feel that it cannot be repaired in the short term, you can also force IE 8 to use "IE 7 emulation mode" On the server side by adding meta tags to the page, which is simple:

A. For the full station page: You can modify the HTTP header information of the Web server (such as Apache/iis/resin, etc.) by adding the following directive: X-ua-compatible:ie=emulateie7. This is my personal highly recommended practice, you can not do the full station test, you may use this method to make IE 8 of the strict mode of temporary failure.

B. For individual pages: If your site most of the pages in IE 8 Strict mode to display normal, only the individual page problems, it is recommended that the page at the beginning of the problem, that is, the head tag add the following meta Tags:

<meta http-equiv= "x-ua-compatible" content= "Ie=emulateie7"/>.

For more information, please refer to: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952030/

　　2) Production of activity and WebSlice

IE 8 exposure during the Beta 1 period of two new features, namely activity (activities) and webslice (source clips), the current domestic many sites have been based on activity and webslice production of related content, in IE 8 Beta 2 period, You will find that more websites will publish these practical gadgets. Here are some websites that have been released today:

A. Taobao: http://ie8.taobao.com

B. NetEase: http://ie8.163.com

C. Baidu: http://stock.baidu.com/ie8/ie8.html

D. Tencent: http://labs.qq.com/e/49/

Even included. NET developers often go to the blog Park has also released its latest article of the Web Slice, if you are interested, you can use IE 8 Beta to visit the homepage of the blog Park. In addition, if you also use Firefox 3, you can see that someone has developed an activity for Firefox 3 and a WebSlice plugin.

Usage Scenarios for activity: Your site provides a range of services that allow users of your site to invoke this service through active operations on other sites. For example, if you are a financial Web site, to provide inquiries about stock/fund information services, through activity, you can let your users in other sites to browse stock information, do not need to jump to your site, that is, you can use the right menu to call your site's corresponding services. If you are interested, you can download the Activity development White paper.

WebSlice Use scene: Your site provides some real-time information, such as news, stock information and so on, and hope that users can not return the corresponding page, when the content changes, that is, can be pushed to the end user, you can choose WebSlice. The cost of development is simply to set the "Class" element in one of the tabs on the page to the special name "Hslice", please read the WebSlice development white paper for more information.

In addition, when IE 8 Beta 2 is released, Microsoft will release a new gallery Web site for IE 8 to search for components for IE 8 features such as webslice/activity developed by each website, and to provide end-user assessment/download, If you want your development of webslices/activity to be popular with users, start now: The early bird catches the worm. :)

3) Other

When IE 8 Beta 2 was released, will also bring a series of new features, in the previous period, has been for some of the country's leading web site Exchange, many partners are very interested in, and is developing this service, I believe that during the Olympic Games you will see this kind of results (according to the NDA agreement, Such sites have also been taken from Microsoft in the earlier versions of IE 8 Beta 2. Microsoft will also host a series of marketing campaigns to promote the new services for IE 8 developed by our partners.

IE 8 Beta 2 is about to be released, whether you are the website of the corporate web design staff, or personal site webmaster, need to be ready for IE 8 as soon as possible. I hope this article is helpful to you.