Will Internet Explorer 8 solve many of the browser incompatibility issues?

Question

IE 6 and 7 didn't follow many of the w3 standards, like event handling, making it necessary to write code for the standards compliant browsers, and then write MORE code for Internet Explorer. Will IE 8 take us out of this dark age and stabilize web-development? Will it be easier to write one set of code that all browsers will display the same (ish) way?

Answer 1

Every new release of IE gets us a little closer, but it's more about abandonment of old browsers than releasing of new ones. IE35 might be available, but if IE6 still has a 20% market share, we haven't actually progressed. Campaigns like this one which help educate and upgrade, are what will ultimately solve the problem.

Answer 2

IE8 fixes a lot of things - but it is still not up to par.

• No W3C Event Listener/Handlers
• Select lists/Table elements still suffering from buggy styling/manipulation

However with the popularity of libraries like jQuery etc. many of the IE bugs can be worked around.