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* Web Browser: IE | * Web Browser: IE | ||
* Version: 8.0 | * Version: 8.0 | ||
* Release Date: | * Release Date: 2008/2009; expected to be able to release new versions of IE every 12 to 18 months, but Wilson said an every-two-year schedule was looking more likely. | ||
* Direction: standards compliance | * Direction: standards compliance | ||
* Emphasis: security | * Emphasis: security | ||
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* invest heavily in advancing its Web development toolbar with the next version of IE. | * invest heavily in advancing its Web development toolbar with the next version of IE. | ||
* continues to see security as its No. 1 challenge with IE 8.0. | * continues to see security as its No. 1 challenge with IE 8.0. | ||
Possible Features: | |||
* Online/Offline RSS Feeds and Reader | |||
* Improved Bookmark Management | |||
"Locking" a page to prevent users from accidentally navigating away from it | |||
* Adding a "Find on Page" capability | |||
* Improving username/password management | |||
* Restoring the "Image Toolbar" provided in earlier IE 7 test builds | |||
* Changing the download mechanism, perhaps eliminating the initial download to the "temporary Internet files" folder | |||
* Adding easily editable config files (similar to Firefox's userChrome.css and UserContent.css) | |||
* Enabling draggable tabs from one IE window to another | |||
* Configuring tabs so that each has its own private cookie cache | |||
* Introducing new status bar info, possibly with fields such as "last accessed by user" and "window last updated" | |||
* Enabling add-ons, such as stocks, movies, etc., a la Firefox | |||
Revision as of 23:41, 6 June 2007
Internet Explorer
- Web Browser: IE
- Version: 8.0
- Release Date: 2008/2009; expected to be able to release new versions of IE every 12 to 18 months, but Wilson said an every-two-year schedule was looking more likely.
- Direction: standards compliance
- Emphasis: security
- Features:
- Challenges: compatibility vs. standards-compliance connundrum which Microsoft has wrestling with its current and future IE releases. With a half-billion IE users out there, Microsoft takes its responsibility seriously to not break sites without solid reasons, Wilson told attendees
Notes:
- require Web site authors to "opt-in" to standards mode when developing IE 8.0 sites.
- more standards-complaint
- authors then have to take responsibility for breaking pages.
- investing across layout, object model and Ajax development fronts
- making IE 8.0 more compliant with CSS 2.1 layout standards
- working to make the IE 8.0 object model more interoperable with that used by other browsers
- provide more client-side application programming interfaces (APIs) to support local storage for mash-ups
- allow developers to more easily add extensions to its browser,
- invest heavily in advancing its Web development toolbar with the next version of IE.
- continues to see security as its No. 1 challenge with IE 8.0.
Possible Features:
- Online/Offline RSS Feeds and Reader
- Improved Bookmark Management
"Locking" a page to prevent users from accidentally navigating away from it
- Adding a "Find on Page" capability
- Improving username/password management
- Restoring the "Image Toolbar" provided in earlier IE 7 test builds
- Changing the download mechanism, perhaps eliminating the initial download to the "temporary Internet files" folder
- Adding easily editable config files (similar to Firefox's userChrome.css and UserContent.css)
- Enabling draggable tabs from one IE window to another
- Configuring tabs so that each has its own private cookie cache
- Introducing new status bar info, possibly with fields such as "last accessed by user" and "window last updated"
- Enabling add-ons, such as stocks, movies, etc., a la Firefox