Comments on: Microsoft Hints About Internet Explorer 8

By: Samir

Samir — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:45:31 +0000

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.

By: Singh

Singh — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:58:14 +0000

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…

By: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:30:39 +0000

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

By: TechZilo

TechZilo — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:39:11 +0000

Yeah, another year, another version of IE, which is as usual choke full of bugs and vulnerabilities!

When will they learn?

By: Ken Xu

Ken Xu — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:37:57 +0000

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.

By: MN Web Design

MN Web Design — Sun, 06 May 2007 02:54:16 +0000

Wow, that’s crazy! I can’t wait for I.E. 8!

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Microsoft hints at IE8 / Auxiom / Steven Bao — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:12:45 +0000

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By: Steven Bao

Steven Bao — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:10:42 +0000

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.

By: zoid

zoid — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:36:11 +0000

FF is cool, but IE7 is better than IE6;)

By: shashank

shashank — Sat, 05 May 2007 12:10:00 +0000

Everyone is using firefox nowadays also the new opera is good too…lets see what we have for IE8 ..

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By: Sreejith

Sreejith — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:48:31 +0000

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 !!