IE8 Readiness and MIX08 Keynote

March 5th, 2008

Update Oops! Available now. For those continuing to click the download button, IE8 will be available at 2pm PST, which is 4pm CST, by my SVG clock. More later, but we can confirm that IE8 does not support the XHTML MIME type. My opinion, based on what I'm reading and seeing, Microsoft will never directly support application/xhtml+xml. Or SVG. Or MathML. And will probably cherry pick on what to support for HTML5.

I guess IE8 beta will be available this week to the public. Anne pointed to the IE8 "Readiness" page at Microsoft, though the download links aren't active. I imagine they'll be active after today's MIX08 kickoff keynote.

Speaking of which, Neowin has links to the keynote video stream. They keynote is at 9:30am Pacific time, which is 11:30am my time. Check my SVG clock–if you're using a browser that supports SVG that is.

I might as well give a heads up that I may not be a particularly good mood later in the day.

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Jeff Schiller - 12:22 pm March 5, 2008

From here:

Internet Explorer 8 does not support the XHTML namespace definition

and

Internet Explorer 8's improved namespace support is not a complete implementation of the XML namespace specification, nor is it an implementation of XHTML

Though they do give a nice example of how to do SVG inline with HTML, they are limited - looks like xlink:href might not work within the namespaced SVG (and MathML within SVG will definitely not)

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