Microsoft Reveals IE8 Release Timeframe Comments

Amazing. So here we are -- what, 9+ YEARS -- after the W3C recommendation for CSS1, and Microsoft FINALLY is putting out a browser that passes Acid2?? (Opera has passed for quite some time now -- since Opera 9 -- and their current MOBILE browser even passes it.) Meanwhile, IE7, the current incarnation (not counting IE8 beta) performs about as well as Opera 3.6, released SIX years earlier, and well before Acid2.

One would think that with all the advantages Microsoft has over its competitors, they could support not only CSS1 but also CSS2, SVG (already supported in FF and Opera), and any number of other W3C recommendations well ahead of everyone else. However, in typical MS fashion, they prefer to first try to ram their OWN standards down our collective throats, only to later be dragged kicking and screaming to the web standard table, well after all their competitors have moved on to implementing the NEXT generation of standards.

As a web developer, this peeves me to no end. I'm sick of "designing in FF, then hacking for IE" endlessly. When will MS make the hacking unnecessary???

IE8 = FAIL. Looks like I will continue to use Opera as my primary web browser for the foreseeable future.