Windows Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 in the first half of 2008 that will have full support for web standards. And the new browser will be known as “Windows Internet Explorer 8″.
Website designers will be able to write websites based on standards, insert a flag that tells IE to render in IE8 standards mode, and IE will then switch its rendering engine to use this new mode.
Thus IE8 won’t break the layout of existing websites coded for previous versions of IE (IE7 or IE6, for example). They’ll behave in exactly the same way in IE8 unless website designers opt-in to IE8 standards mode by placing a simple tag at the head of their HTML document.
It is not immediately clear if Windows IE8 will be available for Windows 2000 and XP versions. [MVP]
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Where did you get this information? Is there a public statement from MS saying they’ll have a beta in 08 or that it will be standards compliant?
Ed: Microsoft circulated this information to all MVPs this morning.
Now if Microsoft open sources IE and ports it to Mac (again) and Unix (again), everybody will use it.
That will be the same day pigs fly of course. :)
The last version of IE I used was 6. Haven’t touch IE7 and will do the same for 8. I got firefox, and IE cant reach firefox 2 until IE 100 :D
I await the next bug ridden version of their browser with anticipation…The one thing I love about IE is how much it makes you appreciate Firefox.
I know of sites that do not work in ie6 but does so in ie7 or ie5. There are lot of horror stories around it. And then you have mozilla and coding you need to do specific to browsers. I wonder where ie8 is going to take us.
Mike I feel you when you say you love firefox.Same here..
I would any day prefer FireFox. IE can can never match the current version of FireFox until they bring in another 10 versions…
Amit,
The IE8 standards mode looks like MS is trying to force its standards on web developers. Wont it be a possibility that Live Search may rank websites with the IE8 standards more than others?
What is your take on this perspective?
Yawn…Microsoft haters…it’s never good enough.
IE7 was a good improvement over IE6 and IE8 will be more friendlier for web designers like me.
Comments like “IE is only going to be as good as Firefox until it reaches version 100″ only shows how much of fanboy people can be….yawn. Btw, Firefox isn’t all that great either and I take anyobe’s bet who says that Firefox runs safer on Vista (not XP) than IE7, ANY bet.
It also annoys me when I get an E-mail like I got this week saying that their site X has problems with IE7 and they suggest to switch to FF instead of fixing the site so that is compatible with the most popular browser. If people want to enforce FF, then I say: screw you!
From a web designer who makes sure that all his sitest are compatible with I6-I7, Opera 8-9, FF 1-2
I’m using a new computer with Windows Vista and IE 7.0.I have an email from google, the gmail, and I can open them but when I try to send or reply any, the IE closes and appear the message “The Windows found a problem and is closing the program to solve it”.The same when I try to visit sites like Lime Wire.I have tried to solve this for a week, what can I do?