Microsoft promised to release the next Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 in the first half of 2008. It has already passed the critical test - Acid Browser Test from Web Standard Project.
The tests show whether a browser renders a Web site in a standard way. If the browser renders the site correctly, it means the browser supports accepted Web standards. This is a welcome news for majority of web developers who target multiple browsers. With its wide adoption with IE users, we can finally hope to get rid of IE specific hacks in CSS.
With stiff competition from Mozilla Firefox, an open source browser, since its release three years ago, Microsoft was forced to release IE7 last October to be more web standards compliant. However Web sites that were created for older versions of IE didn’t work properly on IE7. Microsoft hopes to remedy this problem so the situation is not repeated with IE8.
According to Dean Hachamovitch, a Microsoft general manager of the IE team:
The key design goal for IE8, he said, is compatibility with existing Web sites and Web standards supported in other browsers to provide a premium user experience.
As per Microsoft, the final release of IE8 depends upon the feedback, received from Beta users.
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