I have been tasked with developing the IE8 action plan for Microsoft New Zealand and I need your help! Come and see browsers by the numbers, some of the new stuff in IE8 and help me build an action plan on how to rid the NZ of IE6. I will start with a presentation and demo then take a group discussion. Comment http://bit.ly/bcaie8

2. 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

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

4. You are not the target market!

5. Intel Mac <3 % of Kiwi’s Vista = 17%

6. It’s an XP game

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

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

12. 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.

14. 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

16. 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

17. The quick stuck in time fix...

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

20. DEMO