Internet Explorer 8 Release / Squarespace

As you may or may not have heard, Internet Explorer 8 has been released from Microsoft into the wild. As of today, Squarespace is fully compatible with IE8, and we recommend everyone using previous versions of IE upgrade immediately. From our initial testing, IE8 seems to be a major speed improvement over IE7 and has some great debugging tools that will help us ensure IE works better than ever.

That said, Squarespace still recommends Safari and Firefox as our best performing browsers, followed closely by Google’s Chrome (which is built on the same rendering engine as Safari). If you’ve been in Internet Explorer all these years and have a spare moment, take a moment and give one of these a download — you may just be surprised at how responsive the web can be.