Comments on: IE.Next has a new name…. IE8

By: Gobizz

Gobizz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:01:31 +0000

I hope they can compete with firefox otherwise firefox will take there market share pretty soon…

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:29:42 +0000

@Chris Phillips:
Awesome! Just in time for the release of the IE8 logo!

By: Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:41:58 +0000

Good news then – IT at our company which represents 80,000+ desktops just announced they are upgrading us from IE6 to IE7 sometime second quarter in 2009. I’m serious.

By: Nameless

Nameless — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:26:09 +0000

While we’re talking about IE8, I look forward to the day no one longer uses IE6, so that the rest of us developers no longer needs to worry supporting that bad browser.

By: Bart Melton

Bart Melton — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:24:27 +0000

Why don’t they just call it “the anvil in the deep end of the web pool”…. which is a slight improvement over “the gaping security hole on your desktop” that we all new IE 5-6 to be. And hey, they could even call it 2.0, afterall IE7 is really anvil v1.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:06:51 +0000

@timheuer – many thx for the http://molly.com post!

By: Guy Fraser

Guy Fraser — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:25:57 +0000

I really don’t give a toss what they call it, I just want the darn thing to be standards compliant. Micro$oft keep saying they “get it” but all I see is a company determined to avoid standards compliance because it deeply benefits their proprietary product sales. With the resource they have they could pump out a standards compliant version in no time – and if not they should just ship Firefox with Windows and rid the planet of the IE curse once and for all. Just release a browser that _actually_ works… FFS!

By: scrapper

scrapper — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:16:16 +0000

@Dan G. Switzer, II… funny.

By: Dan G. Switzer, II

Dan G. Switzer, II — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:50:14 +0000

Thank god. I was afraid they were going to call it Intenet Explorer Interactive Edition for Office or IE IE O for short.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:37:43 +0000

So, let me get this straight. The other day, there was a post complaining that there was no information about IE8. And now there’s a post making fun of the announcement that they’re going to start blogging about IE8.

By: Porta

Porta — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:56:05 +0000

@Daniel
You made this old man laugh for a while.
We should sue MS if they continue rolling out more IE’s

By: Site Smart

Site Smart — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:17:11 +0000

@Kae
Yes it was a waste of time.

Unless they miraculously implement full CSS and JAvaScript support then this release should just be named IE 6.6 or even IE 6.5.1

By: web freak

web freak — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:10:22 +0000

I like the previous posters comment about IE 0.8:) Rules:)
Anyhow, you can see how silence does not equal inaction! The people have been busy picking a name! Now if it only took them a year for the name, maybe we’ll see the beta in about 10?

By: Kae Verens

Kae Verens — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:23:38 +0000

so they’ve posted a whole article to discuss the name of the browser that follows IE7.

yet they haven’t said anything at all about the plans for the browser.

has anyone actually learned anything from that article that they didn’t know beforehand, or was the article a waste of time?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:10:50 +0000

What’s with big the software companies these days? Only big releases? No more 7.2, 4.1, 10.3 versions? I doubt IE8 will be such a big improvement from IE7?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:02:11 +0000

How about Internet ExploDer – Symbiont of all things Spyware

By: Gwion

Gwion — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:24:39 +0000

“IE working edition” would be a nice one… ;-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:28:26 +0000

How about IE 0.8

By: Viktor Kojouharov

Viktor Kojouharov — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:27:38 +0000

OMG, they have a name. People, They HAVE a NAME!!! Everyone rejoice, our troubles are over!

By: SchizoDuckie

SchizoDuckie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:18:02 +0000

Do they really think they’re being funny or something? If that’s the point, it’s not working… If the point of this post is getting people eager to try it: Its also *NOT* working. If the point of this post is getting web developers pissed off… It definately *IS* working. I am *NOT* going to add ONE MORE stylesheet for one more flawed microsoft browser.