Web developers world wide are holding onto their mice in anticipation of the release of the next generation of Microsofts Internet Explorer, IE7. With anticipated increases in CSS2 and accessibility standards compliance along with security enhancements, it is hoped that the world wide web will no longer be split between the W3C compliant browsers and the megalomaniacal Microsoft monopoly of browser rendering.
Microsoft yielding to IE standards pressure?
What this means in real terms is that developers will no longer have to develop sites using the W3C standards, then hack them up to give the same text sizing, pixel placement, and functionality in IE as has been done for the past 4 years.
With the new styles currently in the pipeline for the USyd domain this is great news indeed, but as with all things Microsoft, I'll believe it when I see it.
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