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I'm honestly not sure what I'll do. My big concern is Microsoft's dedication to keeping to standards. We all know how long it has taken them so far and I'm fairly certain the only reason they can be arsed to do it now is because they see their market slipping to Opera and Firefox. What happens if we openly accept IE8 then they fail to develop anything else for another 6 years? Personally I think I'm going to wait for IE9 or IE X before saying "safe".<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On 19 Dec 2007, at 22:11, Zach Young wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'll probably still plug FF to friends who actually use the Internet (for the plugins - adblock, especially), but it won't be nearly the issue as it was with ie6.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 19, 2007 7:56 PM, Christopher Jones < <a href="mailto:chrismjones@gmail.com">chrismjones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I honestly would probably stop pushing one browser over another for the average person. I actually have mostly stopped since IE7 came out since it is not nearly the hinderance to development that IE6 is. <br><br>For web developers, Firefox will still be the way to go due to extensions like the Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug. <br><br>I personally use Opera for all of my daily surfing (though Google is messing with that), but if IE8 comes out strong in relation to standards, I will cease caring what people use from a professional stance. People will always have their personal preferences, and there will always be zealots.... but as a developer I won't care. <br><font color="#888888"><br>~ Christopher</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dann S. Washko</b> <<a href="mailto:dann@thelinuxlink.net" target="_blank"> dann@thelinuxlink.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br>Well here is a question:<br><br>If IE 8 came out passing the Acid-2 test and was just as standards<br>compliant as Opera and they worked on beefing up security and Firefox 3<br>did not pass Acid-2: Would you still recommend Firefox over IE to any <br>users? Would you continue to support Firefox with the gusto many do<br>now? Would you throw bones to Opera?<br><br>Would the industry begin to settle back to IE at the expense of Firefox<br>and Opera?<br></blockquote> </div><br> </div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wsuug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Wsuug@list.wsuug.org">Wsuug@list.wsuug.org</a><br><a href="http://www.thelinuxlink.net/mailman/listinfo/wsuug" target="_blank"> http://www.thelinuxlink.net/mailman/listinfo/wsuug</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wsuug mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Wsuug@list.wsuug.org">Wsuug@list.wsuug.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.thelinuxlink.net/mailman/listinfo/wsuug">http://www.thelinuxlink.net/mailman/listinfo/wsuug</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>