swa66 - 10:35 am on Nov 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

Why call it IE9 ?

It's not like Microsoft has a tradition to keep up in sticking with numbering releases: Win 3; win3.1; win95, win98, ME, NT3.5, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, win7 (which identifies itself as ... 6.1 sigh).

Why not just call it IE8 build 9876.54 so people aren't afraid of upgrading.

Right now we're already forced to deal with 3 different versions of IE, each with their own unique set of bugs and features that never seem to get fixed.
unless they are ready to get rid of all of them out there, they should focus on fixing the old ones instead of adding a fourth to the list.

We've seen plenty of promises with every version it would be different this time, only to discover after a while it's going to be yet another instance of the same. Even IE8 still has "hasLayout" in IE8 mode: where is that property mentioned in the CSS2.1 standard over at w3.org?

On the list of HTML5, CSS3: add SVG, it's far more important than ActiveX, DirectX, VML, backward rendering modes and whatnot they stuffed in that browser!