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May 7, 2007 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
As I was reading through the WXPNews, another interesting article that Deb pointed me to was one written by Mrs. Microsoft, Mary Jo Foley.
The topic of discussion is what we may have to look forward to in IE8. From the looks of it, it appears that most of the changes are going to be under the hood and focused more towards the development community.
Microsoft may be looking for developers to “opt-in” for a more standards compliant development plan using IE. More support for CSS 2.1, more open API’s for new extensions from the community.
The other topic of discussion was how long we may have to wait for the next iteration of the world’s most popular browser. Many people would like for IE to be updated through rolling updates as ongoing patches and deployment releases. Microsoft would prefer to stick to a 12-24 month release schedule as anything more frequent would make it too much of a “moving target”.
Hmmm, moving target? Seems to me that might be a better avenue to go down if people are always wanting to take a shot at you?
Latest news about IE8 can be found at http://internetexplorer8.net
Looking forward to see IE8 soon. :) Hope it can be better than Firefox when it release cause I am Firefox fan. Seldom use IE lately.
Do we know when a beta program will be up and running or at least access to MSDN subscribers?