It's nothing new to anyone that Internet Explorer is the most used browser, thanks to its dissemination to Microsoft's Windows operating system. The statiscals prove what I'm talking about, the Internet Explorer in their Damn it. old version 6, still leads the list of most used browsers.

In January 2009, we can already see the change, other browsers gained space, but Internet Explorer 7 takes the lead.
Even at the top of the list, Internet Explorer has become hated by web developers, as it renders the pages in a different way than other browsers, not to mention some failures in this rendering. What does that mean? Errors on your site that only appear on it, in other browsers everything happens as expected.

With the arrival of version 7 of the IE, the thing changed, but something almost insignificant, because the "hype" of the IE 6 continues, so if it's from the same family, people already say it's bad. However, what few people know is that IE 7 already reads the sites in a different way, and several bugs in reading have been fixed, so IE 7 is not as bad as they talk, but it could be better if Microsoft used an open source for it.

We know IE 8 is about to be launched.And between you and me, whoever tested the browser saw that of all the versions, it's definitely the best. Not because it's new, but speed has increased, page loading is done in a different but functional way, and if the site you're seeing doesn't support the version, you can switch to a compatibility mode. Internet Explorer 8 brings back several new features, which developers have signed up to implement in their browsers.

Even with new features, faster and more efficient, I leave a question on the air:
Will the Internet Explorer hype change with version 8?

If it doesn't, I think Microsoft will already have a card up its sleeve to present. I'm talking about Gazelle, the company's future webbrowser. The browser will have system functions added to it to ensure greater security in navigation. According to TechReport from Microsoft Research, the browser kernel will act as an Operating System, where there are multiple functions capable of dividing a website by elements (the page itself and existing plugins). This will greatly increase the safety of the browser.

This feature is not new, as many already know, it is used in the google browser, Chrome.

The authors of this study complain that they developed a prototype, Gazelle, based on Internet Explorer. They state that this browser clearly demonstrates the philosophy of OS architecture of multiple main processes and total compatibility with DOM management and JavaScript interpretation, already existing in the IE.

What we have left is to wait until a sketch of what this browser would be, which, in my opinion, would be a great Microsoft move to pull the competition rug :P.

Post published with Internet Explorer 8. (It wasn't that bad.)