Internet Explorer 8
Bill Gates recently announced that the next version of Microsoft’s web browser would be called, wait for it, Internet Explorer 8! It’ll no doubt be a few years before it’s released and will hopefully finish off what IE7 started, bug fixing! One step further to full CSS 2.1 compliance and true XHTML support would be diamond but no-ones holding their breath.
Lets look back at IE7 for a moment. It’s certainly a heck of a lot nicer to code for than IE6 with hack-related development time cut in half, support for Alpha transparency in PNGs is awesome too but while IE6 holds on to anything greater than 1% market share we’re still developing and testing for both. I’m glad that Microsoft pushed IE7 out as an automatic-download with option to install, I just hope with IE8 they go the whole hog and make it a critical-update!
See Microsoft’s blog for full details.
James.