Archive for March, 2008

Wow… that was quick… IE8 beta 1 hits the web.

A nice surprise just hit my feed reader. Microsoft has just released the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit, a micro-site containing download links for IE8 beta 1 as well as useful information for web developers.
I’m not sure, but I think I’m actually getting really excited about this release. While I haven’t installed the beta [...]

Microsoft does the right thing. Web developers’ heads explode in surprise.

For those who haven’t been following the recent drama regarding the proposed web standards behaviour in IE8, here’s a re-cap:

Microsoft announces that IE8 can render the ACID2 test perfectly in IE8. Web devs get excited.
In the name of “not breaking the web” (read: “not pissing off corporate clients that have spent many thousands of dollars [...]