What do you want in Internet Explorer 8?

It's about two years away but we're ready for it now!

[JAB Creations]

Internet Explorer 8 is quietly already under construction and should be due out in about two years from now. What do you think is a must have for IE8?

For starters I elect application/xhtml+xml mime and focus pseudo-element support (of course "enabled" on all elements).

- John

[eelixduppy]

How about a self-destruct button? ;)

[Robin_reala]

Refactoring away of the concept of hasLayout

::before and ::after pseudoelements

rgba colours

xhtml support

A drive for much better DOM compatibility

[edited by: Robin_reala at 10:42 am (utc) on Jan. 15, 2007]

[Leosghost]

gecko

[LifeinAsia]

1) actually works when available for public release
2) able to co-exist with prior versions of IE on the same box (so you can see how a site looks like in different versions without havinbg to fire up other computers)
3) easy to uninstall

[wrgvt]

Speed. It's still too slow.

[skipfactor]

Tabs that don't take 2 seconds to load (sometimes longer--3 gigs of ram) a new blank page tab.

Put the refresh button back where it was, next to the forward and back buttons.

[theBear]

Leosghost, what's a gecko?

[vincevincevince]

A 'picture toolbar' for all video content to allow you to easily download it. I was trying to get something starting with mms:// and ending in .wmv from the BBC to show in a slideshow and couldn't find a way to save it to disk.

[Robin_reala]

theBear: Gecko is the rendering engine using in Mozilla products. A rendering engine is the core of the browser that deals with getting the web page onto the screen.