Mozilla VP talks IE 8, Firefox 3

Here’s a good article on News.com about Internet Explorer 8.0 becoming more standards compliant. We are doing multiple web development projects now, from a Seatability website redesign to a completely different ecommerce venture, and this is really giving us fits. We’ve got designs that look great in all standards based browsers, but pulling them up in IE makes it look like someone vomited on the web page, with formatting all messed up and major elements not even visible. We’re going to have to hire someone to come in after the fact to do whatever hacking is necessary to make our sites work in all browsers. I applaud any and all efforts to embrace web standards!

As for myself however, I used to be a staunch IE supporter, going all the way back to 3.0, but the long delays leading to 7.0 and tabbed browsing put me right in the Firefox camp, and I don’t know if there is anything the boys at Redmond can do to win me back.