One Wednesday, December 19th, we will announce that Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is being designed and built for a broad range of customers including consumers, enterprises, partners, web developers, and others. We are targeting 1H08 to deliver IE8 beta 1, and future disclosures will be driven by business goals and milestones. We will continue to collect designer and developer feedback to determine additional milestone timelines further down the line.
We also have new information for developers. One of the goals of IE8 is to support the right set of standards with excellent implementations without breaking the existing web. And last week, IE8 reached a core milestone: IE8 in standards mode now correctly renders the “Acid2 Browser Test”. Acid2 is a test that determines how well a browser works with several different web standards.
Successfully rendering Acid 2 is an important landmark for IE8 as it highlights the interoperability, standards compliance, and backwards compatibility that we’re committed to for this release.
12/19 Resources for community:
· Internet Explorer 8 Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
· Channel 9 IE8 Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/