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The IE team has been very hard at work on IE 8 for the past several months and they hit a huge milestone last Friday evening. The IE dev team checked in a bunch of code that included several new features implemented in the core rendering engine that enable IE to pass the ACID 2 test! This is great news for web developers: IE 8 is going to be our most standards compliant browser to date. Passing ACID 2 is really a combined side effect of all the new features that have been developed for IE 8. In this interview, I sit down with IE GM Dean Hachamovitch and Architect Chris Wilson to discuss this milestone and dig into compliance in general, lessons learned from IE 7 and discuss the IE team's ultimate goal of de facto interoperability. Of course, no Channel 9 interview is complete without meeting some of the devs who actually write technology so we take a walk from Dean's office to super developer Alex Mogilevsky's office to discuss what's been done to provide IE with the core rendering features that enable IE 8 to pass the ACID 2 test. We also chat with CSS guru Markus Mielke who was instrumental in identifying and planning the feature set required to pass ACID 2. Full Story At Source
Its only because they got told more or less to get their *** into gear and make their brower more compatible with web designers and users alike.
na i mean maybe to some extent but realistically they were already moving towards standard completeness with IE7 as it was a major step up from IE6 and IE6 was also a major step up from IE5 i mean before IE6.
Either way its good news, and makes me wonder what will be new in IE8 especially if they are taking their new stance from the Windows Mobile world, to other areas like IE.... you know the whole "the experience matters" over "what would our corporate customers think!"
Compatition did play a part in this, but the major change is in what websites and web developers are doing now, more than what FF and Opera have done.
Developers are key to MS, so when they're not happy MS has to change to make them happy. WebDevs want standards compliance, so MS is giving it to them now.
YOu can argoue that it's thanks to FF that IE is back on track, but FF has only played a small part really. Opera was around way before, and has better support than FF does. Yet even back then devs didn't talk about them much.