Microsoft still isn't talking specifics in terms of what it plans to
deliver as part of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE 8.0. But
at the Mix '07 conference in Las Vegas, Chris Wilson, platform
architect of Internet Explorer, did share some general directions the
team is taking with its next release.
In his "IE Past
Present and Future" talk on May 1, Wilson told the standing-room-only
audience that he wasn't going to show an IE 8.0 feature list, as he
"wasn't allowed to."
However, Wilson did tell attendees
that Microsoft is planning to require Web site authors to "opt-in" to
standards mode when developing IE 8.0 sites.
"Five
years ago, no one in the top 200 Web sites was using standards," Wilson
said. "Today it is half of the top 200 Web pages."
Wilson
acknowledged that he wasn't sure exactly what form this kind of opt-in
would take. But asking authors to opt in will "give us freedom to do
some great things," he said. By giving Microsoft permission to make IE
8.0 more standards-complaint, authors will take responsibility for
breaking pages.
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