After many months of silence, the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 (or IE Next) is coming soon. In a somewhat arguably humorous post, which discusses the possible name for the next Internet Explorer version, we are given a hint that the new browser will be released soon. As far as the features, well, we’re going to have to wait the next announcement, hopefully more serious than this one.

“You will hear a lot more from us soon on this blog and in other places. In the meantime, please don’t mistake silence for inaction.”

I don’t think silence was the right way to accompany work on the new IE version. Microsoft has even asked for webmasters to give feedback about the features for the new browser in the past months, but haven’t publicly given any notion as to what the new browser will be housing under the hood. Better late than never, I guess, but I wish we could at least know what to expect. Are we looking at a standards fully compliant browser, or another Microsoft vision of how things should be. In other words, are developers going to have to spend additional hours tweaking code to work in IE8, if that indeed is going to be the name for the new version. Bill Gates seems to use “IE8″ in his communication with the team, so I guess IE8 is the new name for it.

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