According to PCWorld:
“Microsoft will release a second beta of Internet Explorer 8 before the end of October, said a manager in its technical support group, who also warned Web designers to start adding a new tag to their sites or risk those sites “breaking” when the new browser ships.
“We are encouraging site administrators to get their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for all consumers,” said Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft’s New Zealand operations, in a blog entry earlier this week.“
I think it is great that IE will finally display web content in standards mode by default. This whole compliance thing is a hallmark of Microsoft because of their long history, but it needs to start moving in a new direction like with IE8. If you need your website displayed in IE compliance mode, then you have to do something about it, otherwise it will display according to web standards just like Firefox.
I’m excited to see the browser wars heat up. And by browser wars I mean Firefox vs IE… Safari and Opera are not worth considering to me unless they both do something dramatically innovative and groundbreaking – which I just don’t see happening.
