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  • Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) released

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta yesterday and, surprisingly, it seems to be quite a good browser! I say surprisingly because Microsoft don’t have a track record in the good browser market 😉 I wrote a post a few weeks back comparing the speeds of various browsers and Microsoft’s current browser, Internet Explorer 7, was…

  • Will 2008 be the year of the standards compliant browser?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft announced yesterday on the Internet Explorer blog that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) will correctly render the Acid2 test page. See the excellent Channel 9 video for more. The Acid2 test is a test of a browser’s ability to properly render CSS and HTML. From the Acid2 Wikipedia page: The Acid2 test…