The battle Internet Explorer / Firefox is back

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A year and a half after the last battle, Microsoft and Mozilla at it again coming out betas of their latest web browser: Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.

It was during the month of October 2006 that came out the two most popular browsers currently. At the time, Firefox was displayed as a real competitor where Internet Explorer reigned supreme and had even managed the impossible challenge of becoming a must-browser. Today, Microsoft has included its weaknesses and decided against going out attack at the same time as Firefox 3, the new version of its web browser.

Internet Explorer 8: the largest gap filled

Besides a slew of new features, the most important is the support of the latest standards. Indeed, web standards, including those established by the W3C, have been neglected for years by Microsoft. This is what has made, among others, the success of Firefox . Today, Internet Explorer has to catch up in "enabling developers to innovate rather than modify their content to stick to the browser being used." Moreover, Microsoft has the ambition to achieve a perfect score in the Acid Test, which could be good news for web developers worldwide.

Firefox 2: the buzz continued

Before the release of Firefox 3 expected in mid-June, Mozilla decided to launch a huge buzz to promote its web browser. For this, the California Foundation mobilizes the community to establish a record that will be entered into the record books. She asks them to blow up the download counter of Firefox 3 during one day and preset and enter the annals as the most software downloaded in 24 hours. This day, called Download Day 2008 , will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, the Mozilla Foundation collection promises download for D-Day It has also, on the main page, a world map with the number of pledges by country.

At Mousstic, we already made our promises:

To conclude, we can say that Microsoft has included (this time) the expectations of its users by enabling a "full" interoperability of its browsers with web standards. But Firefox , with its lead in this area seems to be a safe value that should not be overlooked.

To be continued ...

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