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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by shaneco

About a year after the first beta (which was followed by another beta and a release candidate), Microsoft has announced the release of the final version of Internet Explorer 8, the company's newest browser. The focus of Internet Explorer 8 is better standards compliance, security, and making "common online tasks faster and easier".

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Thanks

by sb56637 on Thu 19th Mar 2009 14:37 UTC

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2006-05-11

You can thank the Mozilla and Opera guys for this release. If it weren't for them, we'd all be using a browser more or less similar to Internet Explorer 5.5 with no innovation and depending on Java applets to run any rich interactive content.

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RE: Thanks

by darknexus on Thu 19th Mar 2009 14:43 in reply to "Thanks"

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2008-07-15

Don't forget about Webkit, and/or Safari as well.

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RE[2]: Thanks

by arooaroo on Fri 20th Mar 2009 12:12 in reply to "RE: Thanks"

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2005-07-06

Don't forget about Webkit, and/or Safari as well.

In which case we mustn't forget to thank khtml (the embeddable html component found in KDE) from which webkit was derived.

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