miscoded

not only did microsoft listen, but they also came out with this, i've been reading the whitepappers and doing everything short of installing this puppy(no time, to setup a test machine). But if it's all true...i do not know what to say about IE.

And now it is available for download. Even vpc images for the non-windows folks.

Microsoft listened to the threat of a new major fine from the EU...

It's a good thing.

As for IE8beta 1:

Generated content, .contentDocument, data URIs, getAttribute("href") and .href now work right, printing-related css fixes, general DOM fixes, Selectors API, DOM storage, circular reference fixes. All good things.

However, some quick notes:

No event support improvement. No addEventListener. No event objects passed to the function. No event.target.

Data URIs are limited. data:text/html doesn't work for security purposes. Probably a good thing for IE .

Still can't append nodes to dynamic object elements.

Still can't load many plugins with object without using classid. (But at least you can now append a dynamic object element to the document without have to set outerHTML = outerHTML on it.)

No script type attribute support for application/javascript and application/ecmascript.

The cross-document interaction between different IE modes is a little interesting. There's potential for a mess there, but fine if you're careful.

No application/xhtml+xml support and no NS functions.

So, I'm impressed, but IE needs a lot more work.

IE (even 6) still prints web pages a million times better than every other browser though.

"Microsoft listened to the threat of a new major fine from the EU... "

That got their attention