IE8 is realeased!

Xavier Nyssen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:34:00 +0100

What about compatibility with SageCRM or ACT for Web?

SageCRM is officially compatible with Internet Explorer only... Why? Because some features, scripting, comportment ,… don’t work well with other browsers like Firefox, Opera, Chrome or Safari. However, you could use one of these browsers, but sometimes you’ll encounter one weird comportment: drop-down not appearing correctly, and more.

Now, Microsoft announces Internet Explorer 8. For the software’s giant it is an essential step because its competitors, especially Mozilla Firefox, are winning world parts each day.
All other browser's editors are fighting since a long time on levels who are important for developers and users:
- Security
- Speed (HTML, Ajax/Javascript,…)
- Web standards (W3C)
- Extensibility
- …

Microsoft was late in every domain since too much time. Will this brand new version be THE tool to beat its competitors? The answer is definitely ‘no’. Because Opera, Google, Mozilla and Apple didn’t wait for Microsoft and already have a stable browser which has most of the new IE8’s features.
BUT… The Microsoft’s effort to create a new fast, secure and standards compliant is real. So, and it is the subject of this article, it would be possible that SageCRM’s users encounter some problem with this version.

After our first tests, we didn’t encounter any major issue with this release. More, we noticed that SageCRM is faster than before with this version, and it is significant. But if you should encounter one issue, you have to know that Microsoft thought about compatibility issues for websites “designed for Internet Explorer only” which are not W3C’s standard compliant: the compatibility view!

Simply click on 'Tools > Compatibility View' menu:

More, you can also manage settings for each website. Click on 'Tools > Compatibility View Settings' menu:

Thanks to this feature, SageCRM’s users could be sure that their CRM could be totally used with the new release of Internet Explorer.
It is really a good point for all of these companies who still have IE6 because they have internal web application which are only compatible with this old version.
Now, you could ask you IT dept. to update Internet Explorer for everybody and gain from all new features of IE8.
For more details on these features, please read the article on Microsoft’s website: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/tour/default.aspx

Note: we didn't yet tested ACT for Web with IE8 but it is probably more safe to turn on Compatibility View for it also.

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IE8 is realeased!