I am really excited about the upcoming release of Firefox 3.0. I know that we all have our favorite and as of late, Firefox has been David to a certain Goliath web browser. When I look at my web stats I can surely tell that Firefox is gaining a lot of popularity as the choice for web browser.
Microsoft has a new version of its own browser in development. According to Microsoft we can expect the next beta of Internet Explorer 8 to arrive sometime in the third quarter of 2008. This test version will have a different twist, unlike other test versions, which is marked as a “developer preview,” this version will be a public beta targeted at all consumers.
Wahoo – Finally!
The most exciting thing about IE8 is that it will ship with maximum standards compatibility enabled by default. Developers have been chopping at the bit for a true browser-independent Web for a long time. If you’re among many users that rely on business applications specially tailored for IE7, this change may not be in the cards for you, since strict standards compliance could break some of your existing pages. I am sure Microsoft will provide an easy work-around.
An article in Microsoft’s Knowledge Base explains it all. For sites where every page must be rendered exactly how IE7 would do it, you can have your Web server send a special header that will instruct IE8 to fall back to the older rules. If you have just one or two pages that need special treatment, you can add a META tag to their HTML to achieve the same thing.
What browser do you use? Are you excited about IE 8? Or are you “Meh,” compared to your excitement over the release of Firefox 3?
I have been using firefox for years now and can’t imagine ever going back to IE. I know that IE added tabs and a search box and some extensions but don’t think it will ever allow 3rd parties to offer the amount of extensions available on firefox which is one of my favorite things about it.
@ Jennifer :
ever thought about moving to Opera ?
it’s way better , faster , smooth and simple .
really , if looked closely at firefox you won’t find any thing better in it more than opera ,
i see opera as way better than firefox , IE and safari combined together
@ frank : i’ve sent a ping to this post earlier today . [ just checking if it’s there or not ]
Ohhhhh. I thought this article was about predicting the downfall of the new IE8 beta – “Due early fall”. Hehe.
Seriously, since I started using Firefox, I hated IE the more. Could I sue Microsoft for lost time and inconvenience it gave me for using IE?