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IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine

Posted by kdawson on from the fruits-of-competition dept.

KermodeBear writes in to note that according to Smashing Magazine, the newest version of Internet Explorer, codenamed "Eagle Eyes," supports Firefox plugins, the Gecko and Webkit rendering engines, and has scored a 71 / 100 on the Acid3 test. The article is pretty gee-whiz, and I don't entirely believe the claims that IE's JavaScript performance will trounce the others. (And note that the current Firefox, 3.0.8, scores 71 on Acid3, and Safari 3.1.2 hits 75.) No definitive date from Microsoft, but "sources" say that an IE 8.1 beta will be released in the summer.

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  1. Re:Breaking News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But since Smashing Magazine is not an Australian website, you can take your bigotry elsewhere.

  2. Re:Don't forget to vote! by Warll · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oh you think that is confusing? Throughout Canada we use all of them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country#Canada

  3. Re:Don't forget to vote! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Interesting

    DD/MM/YYYY makes the most sense, IMHO, and I'm American. In fact, when I was a kid in school, I thought that dates should be written this way so I wrote my dates that way, and I was corrected by the teacher. I corrected the teacher telling her that if I were in Europe (I had looked this up at the library) I'd write it the way I was writing. Who then called in a parent teacher conference in which they told my parents that I was too much of a smart ass.

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  4. Re:Lirpa Loof by Keeper+Of+Keys · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm a Brit. To me that way sounds American. My birthday? The Twenty-Ninth of November, my good man, and I'll say yes to that pint of Old Peculier. Cheers!

  5. Re:Don't forget to vote! by ketilwaa · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So you actually thought that an upcoming release of IE with Firefox extension support, multiple rendering engines, full CS3 support, and an entirely rewritten javascript engine, all by this summer, sounded reasonable?

    Now, now, don't be so sure. You know what they say about monkeys and the works of Shakespeare? Maybe the monkeys finally has had enough time, and are ready to replace the former MS developers.