It was revealed on the IEBlog that the next version of Microsoft’s web browser will be Internet Explorer 8. No surprises there.
More significantly though is the news (from the same source): internal builds of IE 8 now pass the Acid2 test. I guess to most people this doesn’t sound like anything special - what after all is the significance of the Acid2 test? What this means is IE 8 will support display:table and generated content, among other things, which is a significant improvement.
I confess I have done my fair share of complaining about IE. I feel justified though as I have spent countless (frustrating) hours working around bugs in IE. This is good news however and probably more than I expected. I look forward to seeing it in action.