It has not been a year since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 and they’ve already come up with plans for Internet Explorer 8. At the Mix 07 conference, Microsoft said that they will continue to prioritize security and ease of use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility.
According to Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson, Microsoft plans to release Internet Explorer 8 within two year of IE 7’s release, which means IE 8 is due within the next 18 months. He also pointed that previous version of Internet Explorer strayed from standards and new version of IE 7 have cause some website to fail for end users.
Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is under development, we’ve already seen alpha versions of Mozilla’s forthcoming browser and it is due to release by the end of this year. Internet Explorer leads, but Firefox is growing. Inorder to keep the lead, Microsoft should seriously work on adhering to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 specifications.
Via PC World India
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wrote, on May 4th, 2007
Guess Bill is trying to create a hype in its fanboys with new versions. I mean, I don’t know how much IE would be successful as long as its the most risky browser you can get.
And, I think M$ has got one thing right. They’re gonna concentrate on security. I don’t know what they can do with a browser like that. The whole code is a f***in’ disgrace !!
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
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wrote, on May 5th, 2007
Everyone is using firefox nowadays also the new opera is good too…lets see what we have for IE8 ..
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
FF is cool, but IE7 is better than IE6;)
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
First things first - get rid of NCSA Mosaic or whatever it’s based on. That was just about the first web browser ever made.
Rewrite the engine from scratch, you have two years. If it’s good, well, maybe us web designers and developers won’t be as frustrated with the mediocre software.
wrote, on May 5th, 2007
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wrote, on May 6th, 2007
Wow, that’s crazy! I can’t wait for I.E. 8!
wrote, on May 6th, 2007
Even If IE launch their 9 or 10 version, I will use firefox as my primary browser and Opera as my secondary one. IE will only become my Site testing browser!
I don’t think IE can beat Firefox. period.
wrote, on May 6th, 2007
Yeah, another year, another version of IE, which is as usual choke full of bugs and vulnerabilities!
When will they learn?
wrote, on May 7th, 2007
Although it’s not popular in this forum - i think IE 7 is a decent browser, my understanding is that IE 8 will be out August 2008
wrote, on May 9th, 2007
Yea me too… can’t wait for the next firefox to come out to compete…it’z really true that the internet environment is really advancing so we need some improvement in browser as well…
wrote, on May 9th, 2007
I’m not a fan of IE as a user, but that has been the case since I first tried version 3.0 back on Windows95. That you could put down to personal choice, but as a web designer and developer, IE is my one and only source of suffering in an other wise perfect word of CSS layouts.
So, no, I’m not looking forward to a new IE, not because it might not be better but because each new version of Internet Explorer has a whole new set of wrong ways in which it handles the CSS box model. This means I need to check each of my websites with everything from IE5 upwards seperately because it’s bound to look different in each one of them.
So as far as Internet Explorer 8 “seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility”, I’ll believe it when I see it.