Microsoft wants web developers to support IE 8
Friday, September 18, 2009
Microsoft's web development team is reaching out to web developers to help websites support Internet Explorer versions 6,7 and 8.
IE 8, the latest version of the Windows web browser, is compliant with web standards, according to Microsoft's Steve Guttman of the Expression Web team. Expression Web created a free web tool, SuperPreview, for developers.
"Internet Explorer 8 is an important release because it reconfirms Microsoft's commitment to interoperability and renewed emphasis on Web Standards," Guttman said on the IE blog.
Guttman said his team is in the process of doing significant tooling to support existing and emerging specifications.
Expression web "helps developers and site owners in migrating their sites from earlier versions of Internet Explorer to the standards-compliant Internet Explorer 8," Guttman said.
The full version of SuperPreview also supports Firefox and ships with Expression Web 3.
Web developers are locked in a battle over different versions of web browsers and website development standards. The next version of the core language of the web is HTML5.
The current browser war pits IE against open source browsers like Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft's IE 8 recently beat the others in a lab test the company sponsored of web browser performance against websites containing malware. 
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