At the Mix'07 conference in Las Vegas—Microsoft's annual event for web designers and developers—the spotlight has largely been on Microsoft's Silverlight platform, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Silverlight is a set of tools for developing rich, Flash-like web applications. Less talk has focused around the web browser that will provide the primary user interface for all this new technology. On the Internet Explorer blog, Chris Wilson hinted at some of the things that might be coming in IE 8, while declining to give specific details.
While details may be lacking, the structure of the conferences planned for Mix'07 gives a few hints. Improvements in RSS, CSS, and AJAX support are all being given high priority. It is also widely speculated that IE 8 will include support for microformats, small tags embedded in HTML code that can be interpreted in various ways by software, such as calendar events or contact information. Microformat support is scheduled for Firefox 3, so IE 8 will have to include them in order to keep up. The new version may also include more options for user interface customization, as that was one of the biggest criticisms of IE 7, and one which the developers often blamed on lack of time.
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While details may be lacking, the structure of the conferences planned for Mix'07 gives a few hints. Improvements in RSS, CSS, and AJAX support are all being given high priority. It is also widely speculated that IE 8 will include support for microformats, small tags embedded in HTML code that can be interpreted in various ways by software, such as calendar events or contact information. Microformat support is scheduled for Firefox 3, so IE 8 will have to include them in order to keep up. The new version may also include more options for user interface customization, as that was one of the biggest criticisms of IE 7, and one which the developers often blamed on lack of time.
View: Ars Technica
Like? Is it finally going to be upgraded to support some of the same stuff other browsers do?, it's lagging massively far behind.
For pro and enthusiast users, IE7 lacks in customizations and extension capabilities.
For pro and enthusiast users, IE7 lacks in customizations and extension capabilities.
Try avant www.avantbrowser.com is it a shell for the IE7 engine and has custumisations for everything. It's the fastest browser in the world.
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Cool, that makes it the second one to be!
Seriously, Opera has long been claimed to be the fastest one out of the major browsers, and this test seem to confirm that at least for Windows: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
Granted, IE 7 is compared in beta 3, but I'm unsure if performance improved since then. IE was at a very late stage in development then. And... of course, an IE shell will still use IE's advantages and shortcomings in rendering speeds. Also,
For pro and enthusiast users, IE7 lacks in customizations and extension capabilities.
Try avant www.avantbrowser.com is it a shell for the IE7 engine and has custumisations for everything. It's the fastest browser in the world.
regards
Avant was good back before there ever was a Firefox. :/
Why not "nearly fully" or something like this? I see no benefits when I can delete a IE Check for Line 10 but must still leave it for line 12 in the source.
On the other side I fear that MS overload the IE with senseless features, let the users choose what they want or not with plugins. Maybe make better some improvements for the plugins to change/add things to the IE UI.
since so many sites run by what Id' call idiot webmasters are being coded wand tested only for FF now, not following and complyign with standards but instead complyign and following FF. What they previusly complained that MS did... doign the opposite doesn't help their cause.
this is painfully ovius if you use Opera and come across one of these sites with the huge "Best viewed in firefox" logos, you can almost guarantee they have bad coding and doesn't comply to standard and stuff doesn't look or work well in Opera. Stuff that otherwise would work perfectly well if they followed the standards.
some sites, like Google, actually go as far as breakign compatibility for other browsers. Google docs used to work perfectly fine in Opera. Then all of a sudden the document writer app only works half way, and their spreadsheet doesn't work at all...
I'm usually not one to see motives behind things, but they couldn't break compatibility with IE, sicne it is still being used by the majority. but who cares about the Opera users, and if they stop usign opera they're more likely to use FF than IE... and Google is a supporter of FF. ..
On the other side, if the only benefit that I have with IE8.0 only another browser to check for, and I must still use some tricks for FF, Opera and IE7.0 this make not really sense.
FF is certainly more lenient when it comes to coding than Opera. For example a friend of mine had a mistake on his website where he had forgotten one > to end a tag for a div and it still worked fine in FF but not in Opera. Something like that shouldn't work at all in the first place so people would write HTML that is valid and thus more likely to work in all browsers.
The only things I fear is that IE8 will be Vista only and that by the time it's out it will be a generation or two behind FF and especially Opera. Then it'll again be a situation where web developers are held back by IE's limitations.
FF is certainly more lenient when it comes to coding than Opera. For example a friend of mine had a mistake on his website where he had forgotten one > to end a tag for a div and it still worked fine in FF but not in Opera. Something like that shouldn't work at all in the first place so people would write HTML that is valid and thus more likely to work in all browsers.
The only things I fear is that IE8 will be Vista only and that by the time it's out it will be a generation or two behind FF and especially Opera. Then it'll again be a situation where web developers are held back by IE's limitations.
Man, even when you do code in valid HTML or whatever lang you're using, there's always something I have to go back and work with to make them look the same. As of now, I've given up spending hours debugging one code to have both browsers show things correctly. I just use a piece of JS to tell whether the user is browsing with FF or IE, and have it run separate stylesheets and such. It's a lot faster and easier to do.
I'd love to move to the new IE, but until IE8 can fix the problems left in IE7 and make it more customizable, I'll be sticking with Firefox. And Opera.. ugh.. quick as it may be, I just can't grow to like it. I could go on with reasons, but I think this post is long enough.
Firefox all the way. Agreed IE7 while vastly better than IE6 (which really does look like Win3.1 computing) is still far behind FF's capabilities.
OH NO!!!
Doesn't anyone see Mozilla pushing their non-standard proprietary "extensions"??
Why they needed to make it I don't know, there are allready very effective cross platforms system comparable to XUL. though maybe not many based on XML, but I'd rather take a speed gui and less resources over pretty GUI code.
Microformats were not invented for use in any partiuclar borwser. They're just XHTML/XML ways of representing information.
I'm glad that some browser will at last support them.
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That's a given already, so no point posting this. IE7 is the end of the XP line for IE browsers.
That's a given already, so no point posting this. IE7 is the end of the XP line for IE browsers.
While that might happen, MS hasen't said anything, and the only thing that will decide that are the user numbers when IE8 starts up. If they still have a strong and large XP user base then IE8 will be for XP as well. Not doing that will be a bad move, and make millions more switch to FF or Opera.
At this point, since IE7 isn't tied to the OS as IE6 and older version have been, the same will be the case for IE8, and this makes it easy to support XP and Vista. The only difference between the two might be a few advanced features and any Vista specific security modes.
That's a given already, so no point posting this. IE7 is the end of the XP line for IE browsers.
While that might happen, MS hasen't said anything, and the only thing that will decide that are the user numbers when IE8 starts up. If they still have a strong and large XP user base then IE8 will be for XP as well. Not doing that will be a bad move, and make millions more switch to FF or Opera.
At this point, since IE7 isn't tied to the OS as IE6 and older version have been, the same will be the case for IE8, and this makes it easy to support XP and Vista. The only difference between the two might be a few advanced features and any Vista specific security modes.
You forgot IE7 on xp lack some functionality included in IE7 on vista.
- application/xhtml+xml content type?
- XHTML2 and XForms support?
- Proper ECMAScript not this JScript rubbish?
- Full, complete and correct CSS2.1 and CSS 3 support?
- A separate rendering engine for crappy pages (like Trident) so a new one can start from first principles without having to deal with legacy Frontpage bibble?
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