Snippets of IE8 info revealed during MIX’07
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
The first IE8 hints were made on the MIX’07 session called “IE Past, Present, and Future” by developer Chris Wilson.
IE8 is likely to include a better user interface than IE7, which has been heavily criticised.
Internet Explorer 8 will be the primary user interface for Silverlight application, which compete against Adobe’s Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash). IE8 will have improved RSS, CSS and AJAX support, it will also have support for microformats, small tags embedded in the HTML code that can be used in different ways by software applications such as calendars or contact managers.
By the way, Mozilla’s Firefox 3 will also feature microformat support.
The release of IE8 still remain unknown, but will be under development for at least another year.
