Top couple of NZ Web Sites “Census” May 2008 Including Browsers with > 1% Market Share And judging by the #’s many are still on dial up and XP SP1

We Have a Problem! ¼ of Kiwi’s still use IE6! = a sh*t load more than use Firefox (any version)

You are not the target market!

Intel Mac <3 % of Kiwi’s Vista = 17%

It’s an XP game

Those 5 years that you guys did nothing really hurt us!

It Takes On Average... 30% More Effort to Build for IE6! 5% More to Build for IE7 Source... Something I read somewhere

Internet Explorer 8 = Interoperability Over Compatibility Achieved through a new CSS 2.1 compliant Rendering Engine enabled by default as lobbied by Web Developers world wide.

Plan of Record IE 8 Beta 1: Released at MIX in April (target audience Developers) IE 8 Beta 2: Scheduled to release August 2008 (Broad Beta)

IE 8 Beta 1: Released at MIX in April (target audience Developers)

IE 8 Beta 2: Scheduled to release August 2008 (Broad Beta)

IE8 Rendering NZ Top 30 Websites Visited on average by 1.9 Million People per day Judged by me going and trying them out... Finger in the air type stuff

New Zealand is a long tail web development market. There are ~ 450 small web development companies in New Zealand with on average 40 websites in their portfolio = 18,000 long tail New Zealand websites that may be affected. Source... Analysis from NZ web directories & online portfolios

The quick stuck in time fix...

<meta http-equiv=&quot;X-UA-Compatible&quot; content=&quot;IE=EmulateIE7&quot; />

IE8 New Features WebSlices Developers can mark parts of the pages as WebSlices using the hAtom and hSlice microformat. “ Activities” uses a simple XML format called OpenService. The main functions of an Activity are: Preview: viewing a mini representation of the service results on hover of the Activity Execute: opening the service in a new tab when the user clicks on the Activity Developer Michael Kaply has created a Firefox version of Activities Daniel Glazman has created WebChunks, a port of IE8's WebSlices feature to FireFox

WebSlices

Developers can mark parts of the pages as WebSlices using the hAtom and hSlice microformat.

“ Activities”

uses a simple XML format called OpenService. The main functions of an Activity are:

Preview: viewing a mini representation of the service results on hover of the Activity

Execute: opening the service in a new tab when the user clicks on the Activity

Developer Michael Kaply has created a Firefox version of Activities

Daniel Glazman has created WebChunks, a port of IE8's WebSlices feature to FireFox

DEMO

Please Help Me! Action Plan... Rid New Zealand of IE6 (via XP SP3) Ensure web developers embrace IE8’s new rendering engine.

Please Help Me!

Action Plan...

Rid New Zealand of IE6 (via XP SP3)

Ensure web developers embrace IE8’s new rendering engine.

Links Nigel Parker - http://bit.ly/me - http://bit.ly/kiwi http://bit.ly/ie8 - try it on your site http://bit.ly/iecompat http://ie8.ebay.com Kiwi Foo discussion Feb 2008 – http://bit.ly/kiwifooie8 Drop your comments and join the discussion at http://bit.ly/bcaie8

Nigel Parker - http://bit.ly/me - http://bit.ly/kiwi

http://bit.ly/ie8 - try it on your site

http://bit.ly/iecompat

http://ie8.ebay.com

Kiwi Foo discussion Feb 2008 – http://bit.ly/kiwifooie8

Drop your comments and join the discussion at http://bit.ly/bcaie8