Microsoft announces IE8

[drhowarddrfine]

On the IEBlog, Microsoft officially announced the name of the new browser as IE8. But they won't say anything else, like when, or what improvements have been made to the worst browser on the planet.

Molly Holzschlag had an interview with Bill Gates and she asked about IE8 and standards support. She noticed Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, wasn't letting anyone talk about IE8 and he seemed more secretive about it. So how is standards support coming in IE8?

BILL GATES: In terms of standards support, (Dean will) see that it’s a glass half full. It adds a bunch of new stuff we didn’t have before, it doesn’t add everything that everybody wants us to do.

IE7 will be 10 years behind web standards in January. How far behind will IE8 be?

[daniel2335]

On the IEBlog, Microsoft officially announced the name of the new browser as IE8. But they won't say anything else, like when, or what improvements have been made to the worst browser on the planet.

Molly Holzschlag had an interview with Bill Gates and she asked about IE8 and standards support. She noticed Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager, wasn't letting anyone talk about IE8 and he seemed more secretive about it. So how is standards support coming in IE8?


IE7 will be 10 years behind web standards in January. How far behind will IE8 be?

I will go with 15 years. Someone neededs to make a "contagious program" that replaces everyones IE with Firefox.

[Death Slaught]

IE8!!!!! Great more headaches.

Also in the works is Microsoft's IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product "within 18-24 months". IE8 will apparently "compete even more directly with Firefox". Looking ahead, it's obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers.

LOL! IE compete with FF, *falls over laughing to the point where it looks like i'm convulsing*

- Death

[mrhoo]

BILL GATES: In terms of standards support, (Dean will) see that it’s a glass half full.

Dean and Bill are both wrong with the analogy. The glass is full, but what it is full of is toxic to web standards, and requires the coder to administer antitoxins for event handling, css selectors, content selection, whitespace, line ends, case sensitivity.... .

[drhowarddrfine]

Whoa! .

[Death Slaught]

Whoa! .

Nice........... ...............