Mar
17
In an amazing move by Microsoft, last week they capitulated to the public uproar from the web developer community and announced that they would release Internet Explorer 8.0, now in beta, set to render web pages in “standards mode,” which means that it should now work with web pages developed to the international standard. Previously, they were going to release it so that it rendered web pages incorrectly like IE 7.0 currently does.
That’s completely amazing, and I’ll believe it when I see it, but it looks to be great news for those of us spending too much extra time trying to make things work across the board.
[...] My favorite browser is Firefox, then Safari and Opera. Firefox isn’t perfect, but the new version, now in beta, is supposed to be faster. I hate Internet Explorer (if you’re interested, my rants can be found on my personal blog here and here. [...]