Comments on: Congratulations: CSS Celebrates their 10-Year Anniversary

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:56:36 +0000

I am very grateful that IE 7 has PNG support though, that bugged me for a very long time!

By: SLA

SLA — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:33:30 +0000

IE needs a complete engine rewrite. (This is what Mozilla did with Netscare 4.x, and they got perfect “Gecko” engine).

AFAIK, Microsoft rewrote (replaced with NEW code, not just fixed) some parts of IE6 engine. How much percents of IE engine was changed for v7.0? It looks like 3-5%. Not so much. Could be much more, if they hadn’t implement tabbed browsing, PNG transparency, and RSS support.

Maybe IE 8.0 will be much bigger step forward? I mean standards compliance.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:52:56 +0000

natmaster wrote:

IE8 is still in the planning stages. I predict IE9 will pass the Acid 2 test, although 8 will have greatly improved rendering.

(Please note I will be working on IE8 come the summer as a Microsoft intern.)

Yay! You’ll be my secret insider.

By: natmaster

natmaster — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:34:44 +0000

IE8 is still in the planning stages. I predict IE9 will pass the Acid 2 test, although 8 will have greatly improved rendering.

(Please note I will be working on IE8 come the summer as a Microsoft intern.)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:32:33 +0000

Yes, I have heard that Internet Explorer 8 is already in the works and they hope to address some more standards issues that are still in the browser. Last I heard Microsoft is trying to get on a one-year release schedule for Internet Explorer again, so next fall we should see Internet Explorer 8.

By: SLA

SLA — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:37:05 +0000

BTW, is it truth, that Microsoft plans to start working on IE 8.0 very soon?

Interesting. If they do, then IE 8.0 will be for Windows Vista only. All others will use Firefox But if they don’t, then Firefox3, Firefox4, Firefox5, … will beat IE7 off the scene. Wrong browser must die