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

Re:You know what I want?

[AKAImBatman]

WHATWG is a perfectly good standards organization. They've been doing more to push web technology forward in the past few years than Microsoft has done in the last ten. It wouldn't kill Microsoft to sit up and pay attention to a standard implemented by all other browsers, regardless of whether it comes from the W3C or not. After all, the W3C is not the only organization that's ever standardized web technology...

Re:You know what I want?

[SleepyHappyDoc]

Well, I'm assuming that the lack of a W3C standard for Canvas means that the W3C standard for that is to omit support for it. The original poster I was responding to, almost in the same breath, berated Microsoft for not complying with W3C standards and requested that they comply with a non-W3C one. I don't know much about WHATWG or Canvas, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Either Microsoft will comply with all the W3C standards or they won't at all, or they'll comply with some. You can't have both A and C.

I reiterate: I am not challenging the validity of WHATWG as a standardizing organization, nor do I have anything against Canvas (nor am I a Microsoft fanboy), but I don't think it's fair to hold IE to impossible expectations.