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A week after Opera Software program filed an antitrust fit from Microsoft that targeted, in component, on Microsoft;s falure to create World wide web Explorer (IE) standards-compliant, Microsoft has gone on record stating IE eight will incorporate assistance for essential Internet requirements.
Microsoft verified last week that an internal test build of IE 8 passed the Acid2 Browser Check,Windows 7 64 Bit, according to Dean Hachamovitch, Basic Manager of IE Advancement. Hachamovitch mentioned the milestone inside a weblog post towards the IE Group weblog on December 19. Microsoft also posted a video clip to its Channel nine Web site explaining the finer points for developers interested in the Acid2 details.
Acid2 is often a test page, maintained by the independent Internet Standards Undertaking group, that was composed to support browser vendors make sure support for Internet requirements in their products.
“I;m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Web Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode,” Hachamovitch blogged. “While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is significant for many reasons, it is just one of several milestones for the interoperability,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, standards compliance, and backwards compatibility that we;re committed to for this release.”
In a phone interview on December 19, Hachamovitch also said that Microsoft will release a public beta construct of IE 8 some time within the first half of 2008.
Hachamovitch denied that Microsoft;s decision to disclose this week IE eight;s planned standards compliance was related to Opera;s antitrust match launched last week. Hachamovitch said Microsoft has been working on making IE 8 Acid2-compliant since IE eight planning began.
(Note: I have asked Opera to comment on how Microsoft;s news on IE eight and Acid2 will affect their antitrust complaint filed with the European Commission. Stay tuned for more. Here is the Opera response.)
The beta timing and Acid2 compliance were the only two news nuggets that Hachamovitch was willing to discuss with me around IE 8. I asked him when Microsoft is planning to ship the last IE 8 release; what other features IE 8 will contain; whether IE eight will work with XP or be Vista only; whether Microsoft plans to create non-public check builds of IE eight available to select testers outside of Microsoft in early 2008; and whether Silverlight, Microsoft;s Flash-like player that is currently a browser add-on will be bundled with the last IE eight release. Hachamovitch declined to comment on any of these things.
In the IE Blog posting, Hachamovitch said: “We;ll cover more particulars of the non-developer oriented work (e.g. user experience, reliability,Office Professional Plus 2007, security, etc.) in other posts inside the future, after MIX.”
Mix ‘08 is slated for early March 2008. At Mix 07, Microsoft provided some basic guidance on its future IE plans but has offered no new particulars since then.
In the IE blog posting, Hachamovitch reiterated the Windows client chief Steven Sinofsky;s line that Microsoft is dialing back on transparency for the good of the customer:
“For IE8, we want to communicate facts,Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key, not aspirations. We;re posting this information now because we have real working code checked in and we;re confident about delivering it in the ultimate product. We;re listening to the feedback about IE, and at the same time, we are committed to responsible disclosure and setting expectations properly. Now that we;ve run the test on multiple machines and seen it work,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, we;re excited to be able to share definitive information.”
Microsoft;s IE group has been baraged by critics who have been unhappy with Microsoft;s failure to provide IE eight timing and feature guidance. The group also has been roundly chastized for years — and not just by Opera — for its slowness in making IE compliant with the latest iterations of well-known Internet standards, such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), DHTML an document object model (DOM).
Web developers: What do you think about the IE 8 group;s latest disclosures? What else do you want/need to hear sooner rather than later about Microsoft;s future browser plans?