IE8 achieves web standards milestone

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Posted by:
Nick White
01:50 PM Wednesday
Dec 19, 2007
16 Comments

Today Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted about an important milestone in the development of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE8. As of last week – 12 December, to be exact – the latest build correctly renders the Acid2 browser test in IE8 standards mode. As Dean points out, this is just one of many milestones ahead for Internet Explorer 8 and we can expect to hear more as further progress is made.

IE8 will be at MIX08, with a beta release due sometime in the first half of 2008.

If you have questions on IE8 and the team’s progress, those are best directed to the IE Team blog.

Tags: Windows Vista, Announcement, Featured News, Internet Explorer, IE8

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newscientist2000

Posted on: December 25, 2007 at 12:45AM
Even though I have a strong preferance for the customizable view of IE6 I was glad to install IE7 on my in laws computer today.

Their PC was filled with adware Freeze.com, Whatusave, Funweb, Winternals Power Registry cleaner and some other stuff. IE6 was falling apart, after I installed IE7 along with the malware removal tool the PC is much better than it was.

Im probably going to have to reinstall Windows XP but IE7 will extend the time I have to act a little bit so I can enjoy Christmas.

Cant wait for IE8, although is IE8 going to be Vista only? Because that would be a shame. People like a consistant browsing experience weather theyre using XP or Vista. Its nice to start with a fresh browser every once in a while.

Have a Great Holiday Everyone!
ltolman

Posted on: December 26, 2007 at 10:11PM
So IE8 will not be a part of SP 1 of Vista, will it be a part of SP2? And the Beta comes out in 2008 when is the final product released? Or will IE8 be with the new OS?
khalilibrahime

Posted on: December 28, 2007 at 10:16AM
whats the main new feature in IE8
kral oyun

Posted on: January 19, 2008 at 11:24AM
IE8 will be at MIX08, with a beta release due sometime in the first half of 2008.

If you have questions on IE8 and the team’s progress, those are best directed to the
kingsize

Posted on: February 23, 2008 at 6:16PM
I code html/css as a hobby by hand and have use Opera,FFox,IE,Konq for testing - some standardization would be appreciated (rather than having to search around for IE6/IE7 hacks in order to display pages properly). I'd rather be spending the time creating nice looking pages than applying workarounds for buggy browsers.

"I think I found a bug in IE6/7" lol which bug might that be...

It would be good to have an IE browser as capable as the free browser Opera. Something that works with agreed standards like the ones from W3C for example. I like IE 6/7 because they have are relatively small and fast.

Small, fast, compliant... please. No workarounds, no hacks. And please nothing like netscape navigator... thats just not right at all...

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Posted by: Windows Vista News on December 19, 2007 at 3:30PM
Did you see this post at windowsvistablog.com