Microsoft Drops Hints on IE8

benuski writes "Lost in the hype about Microsoft's new Siverlight platform, there has been some information surfacing about IE8. It will include improvements in RSS, CSS, and AJAX support, and will follow Firefox 3 in supporting microformats. Also, the developers are going to try and improve UI customization, which is one of the main criticisms of IE7."

Comments

Patches are out!

[therufus]

Patches are probably out already. I'm sure there are some hackers who have gotten code and already written spyware for it.

Re:Enough of comparing it to Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

They'd be insane to compare it to lynx -- I get better CSS compliance out of that thing than I do with IE.

-1 Troll, +1 Inciteful?

Re:Enough of comparing it to Firefox

[anaesthetica]

I like "+1 Inciteful" far better than "-1 Flamebait"...

Re:It wouldnt be a good comparison

[Merusdraconis]

Yeah, not like Opera is the most used browser on the planet or anything. Your desktop-centric thinking is rapidly becoming obsolete.

Thanks, guys! I've just got an ad hominem, an assertive statement with no backup and a condescending rebuke in two posts! I'm going to win Slashdot Logical Fallacy Bingo for sure!

Re:I dont care...

[iminplaya]

You can't polish a turd.

I don't know why not. Just lay a couple of coats of varnish and viola, polished turd, a pretty good description of Vista if I do say so myself. :-)*

*It was a joke, okay? I actually like Vista. Best Solitaire ever.

Re:It wouldnt be a good comparison

[jrieth50]

I've seen Firefox punch through a concrete wall. Men have emptied entire clips at it and hit nothing but air, yet its strength and its popularity are still based in a world that is built on rules. Because of that, they will never be as strong or as fast as Opera can be.

Re:It wouldnt be a good comparison

[B2382F29]

Why do I see a FF bloatware joke coming?

Yo Firefox's so fat, you have to DOUBLE-click it to run.