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Internet Explorer 8 to come out in First Half of 2008

20 December 2007 12 Comments

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Microsoft is planning to release the first beta of its next version of Internet Explorer called Internet Explorer 8 in the first half of 2008. Recently IE 8 also passed the ACID2 browser test of the Web Standards Project. The test determines whether a browser renders a site in a certain way. If a browser passes the test, it means the browser supports certain web standards.

IE was developed before some web standards such as CSS and RSS were developed so older versions of IE doesnt support some current standards. This made developers write applications that worked with IE instead of following certain web standards. With the release of IE 7, Microsoft tried to make there broswer more standard friendly. However some sites that were created for the older versions of IE didnt work properly on IE 7. Thus Microsoft would avoid such mistakes in the development of IE 8. According to Dean Hachamovitch , general manager of team working on IE

“As a developer, I’d prefer to not have to write the same site multiple times for different browsers. Standards are a (critical!) means to this end, and we focus on the standards that will help actual, real-world interoperability the most. As a consumer and a developer, I expect stuff to just work, and I also expect backwards compatibility. When I get a new version of my current browser, I expect all the sites that worked before will still work.”


We also face many issues when our websites gets displayed incorrectly in different browsers. Lets hope that we dont have to deal with any such issues with the next generation of browsers.

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  • 12 Comments »

    • Ashwin said:

      Ohh yeah.. been reading some articles about this…seems to be a kick ass browser. The future looks good with IE 8 & FX 3 on it’s way.

    • Haris said:

      I can’t wait to try out the first beta release of IE 8! All the news around is making IE 8 more and more tempting :D

    • chuck norris dude said:

      They know Firefox is kicking their way up so they have to put something better out to fight it.

      My guess is that we are gonna see more interesting features on both sides in years to come. Yummy!

    • Shashank said:

      IE is losing its market share to firefox quickly ..lets see what ie8 can do :)

    • Shankar Ganesh said:

      I’m really looking forward to see how it’ll perform. I’m much interested in it particularly after it passed the ACID Test.

    • Brown Baron said:

      I hope it finally renders sites properly. It will be a big relief for all of us. :)

    • Aseem Kishore said:

      This is exactly the same problem I’m going through with my blog. My blog loads fine in Firefox but the right column is slightly off when you open it in IE7. Which is very annoying!!!

      Hope IE8 is better !

    • Techblissonline.com said:

      hmm…not sure whether i will go back to IE unless it is too good…i will let you know a real cool browser that i am trying out…

    • Manav said:

      Nice post madhur.. i heard something of dis..but was not well-informed, thanks a lot for that post.

    • Benedict Herold said:

      I haven’t used IE most because of the same reason. Neither mine or other blogs won’t load correct in IE. Hope that get better this time. If everything goes on fine, I won’t hesitate to move back to IE since theng Firefox is memory hungry!

    • Madhur Kapoor said:

      It seems that IE will contain some massive improvements and will hopefully become everyones fav choice.

    • Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 launched said:

      [...] few backs Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 was in talks as it had passed the ACID 2 test. Now it looks like the Browser has hit the beta 1 milestone. Microsoft sent out a letter to some [...]

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