A Microsoft Web evangelist hinted yesterday that news of Internet Explorer 8's development progress was disclosed months earlier than planned because Web developers recently stepped up criticism of the company's support for standards.
The news of IE8's ability to pass a widely used Web standards test also came just two weeks after Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said he didn't know why the company's IE development team was keeping a tight lid on information about the next browser.
IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft's browser, passes the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group's general manager. "On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode," Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft's official IE blog yesterday. "While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several milestones for the interoperability, standards compliance and backwards-compatibility that we're committed to for this release."
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The news of IE8's ability to pass a widely used Web standards test also came just two weeks after Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates said he didn't know why the company's IE development team was keeping a tight lid on information about the next browser.
IE8, the next upgrade to Microsoft's browser, passes the Web Standards Project's Acid2 test, according to Dean Hachamovitch, the IE group's general manager. "On Wednesday, Dec. 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode," Hachamovitch said in a post to Microsoft's official IE blog yesterday. "While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several milestones for the interoperability, standards compliance and backwards-compatibility that we're committed to for this release."
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