I had a brief online discussion with an acquaintance yesterday in which he said he was ignoring Microsoft’s nags to upgrade his browser to Internet Explorer 8.
When I suggested this was wrong, IE8 is probably the best version of Internet Explorer so far, his excuse was as per the headline above.

Apparently he designed his personal website “in IE6″, and while IE7 rendered it ok, IE8 breaks it.

So based on this he took what he described as the reasonable decision not to upgrade, while acknowledging that the latest browser does in fact work fine on most other websites.

Suggestions that he ‘upgrade’ his website to embrace web standards that IE8 would accept went unheeded.

IE8 is not perfect, it is still way behind all the other browsers in many respects, but it is better than IE7 and most definitely superior to IE6, which no-one should still be using. Even Microsoft would implore you to stop using IE6.