June 2008. Swamped with betas? Here’s more.
Add to your Firefox 3 beta the new Internet Explorer 8 beta. As an early beta, IE8 did poorly in Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test. That makes IE8 beta farout remote from alpha.


Still, developers rejoiced as Microsoft promised the new browser will stick to industry-standard code. As everyone knows, Microsoft got a lot of flak with IE7 for adding trademarked code to industry standards. As a result, for example, pages that were OK on IE7 were crap on Firefox, and vice versa. Web developers had to tinker with code some more.
Ho-hum, the news hardly makes a dent on us scatterbrained web surfers until I tell you that IE8 got some scatterbrain-friendly intuitive-select-and-duh-right-click capability called Activities, which is reminiscent of right-clicking in MS Office.

And of course, Microsoft’s adhering to standard code means more family time for web developers (at least a web developer friend claimed so).