Wow. Microsoft are starting to get their act together now with IE, IE7 was a massive improvement on IE6. As soon as IE6 has a miniscule number of people using it it'll be so much better for programmers everywhere. IE8 looks as though it'll be another step in the right direction for them, at least now they are actually taking in information about standards. IE are trying to become better, and they are succeeding. All you can do is criticize them? Oh how glad I am to be a part of your species . Bloody fanboys annoy the hell out of me. All these people going firefox this and firefox that, do any of you actually know what your on about? How stupid it all sounds? The fact is that IE and FF will continue to dominate the market and will continue to do so for a long time (especially IE as it comes with windows, most normal* people will never change it), get used to it. *by normal i'm meaning people who don't know that much to do with the internet, browsers, etc. People who won't change something if it works. People who arn't developing for the web and couldn't care less about it. Now get your head out your a$$ and give them some credit.
Yes, they have no idea what's on IE 8. I'm sure that they barely know what's up with IE 7, so I have no pretension that they do know something about IE 8. Yes, Microsoft did messed-up with IE 6 (even that at that time it was good enough) but they repaired at least half of their problems with IE 7. So IE 8 is really an advancement. And they have developer tools also, which are great! First try it, then argue (if you really have any reason to do so).
I know, thats pretty much what I was saying...all be it in a more vulgar way. I'm going to try IE8 as soon as it comes out, i'd rather not download a BETA copy. I expect it to be a good advancement on IE7 and hope that they continue to do this and bring out IE9 next year. From looking at the screenshots and reading reviews it seems like it's going to be a pretty good compeditor to FF and I hope that Microsoft gain back some of their market, they do deserve it. Developer tools sound good i'm going to have to look into this a bit more. That'll probably be the first thing I try when it's out of beta
I've seen some of what Microsoft is coming out with. Seriously... they are working their butts off and developing some REALLY cool things. I talked to some of the developers and was invited out to test some the new software 2-3 months ago...... IMPRESSED! It was extremely premature so I'm not really sure what's going to be changed. They made me swear not to talk about any of it, so I can't. Oh well . IE8 should win me back from FF... at least that's what I'm seriously expecting.
I watched the developers video. That guy really knew what he was talking about. He says IE8 is going to be really CSS and HTML complient. He also mentioned it will be as strict with html/css as other leading browsers (*cough firefox)
I've not watched it yet. Did he mention anything about HTML 5 out of interest? I'll probably watch it in the next few days, I just don't have the time atm (plus my internet isn't exactly going at very fast speeds atm...).
I know what you mean, but Firefox looks so much cleaner and easier to navigate than IE, IE seems to be too cluttered, with ads. I prefer to keep my minimalistic firefox to do what it does best - browsing.
Okay, what? There are no ads on IE. Unless i'm just totally oblivious to them... Also from what I can see FF looks more cluttered than IE when you first get it. Okay so the only big difference is that IE is missing file/edit/etc at the top, but that still makes FF have more stuff on it than IE does. IE has a bigger browsing area when you first download it than FF does when you first download that. I'm not trying to sound like some kind of IE fanboy here and I know it must sound like that, but you just made up that IE had ads, I really had to say something. Awesome, my expectations just keep growing for this...
I used to be a loyal IE user since the begining it came out. One day i decided to give FireFox a try. Havn't looked back since.