Microsoft released the final version of Net Explorer 8 (IE 8) towards the Internet exactly per week back. But that doesn;t mean customers and developers are satisfied. As an alternative, several are champing at the bit to obtain Microsoft to commit to their preferred missing characteristics for IE 9.Microsoft, for its component,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, won;t say anything about IE 9, other than it;s within the arranging stage. In the course of an IE eight Professional Zone Web chat on March 25,
Windows 7 Keygen, members with the IE team reminded participants that Microsoft isn;t prepared to speak at all about IE nine dates or characteristics. The staff seriously isn;t ready however to accept officially suggestions in the user/developer base for Microsoft;s subsequent browser update.(”We will be placing a new form on [the Microsoft private test site] Connect for improvements for the subsequent version of IE. We will send out an email towards the Technical Beta participants when it is available on Connect,” one Softie told chat participants yesterday.)Microsoft;s attempts to slow things down isn;t stopping customers from pitching their top priorities from their IE nine wish lists. Among the functions participants and other customers with whom I;ve spoken are mentioning: a file download manager, support for different Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Version 3 functions, an XML parser, sounds for Internet Slices, better RSS support, and more granular control over JavaScript pages.One chat participant opined that password save/confirmation shouldn;t force an IE page load/login.Kymberlee Price, a Program Manager for Security on the IE team, responded:“Password management is some thing we looked at in IE8 but ultimately had to cut. As a consumer I totally understand why this is a popular and compelling scenario. But as a security person I see it as fraught with challenges to implement. Login with a single master password for example - differentiation of passwords is beneficial to protecting sensitive data like bank accounts separate from less sensitive data like Twitter accounts.”Another chatter said XHTML+MathML support would help students and others who need to publish math-centric content on the Internet. A Microsoft official said Microsoft is hearing “a great deal of requests for this feature, as well as for scalable vector graphics (SVG), “both of which add richer presentation to the Web.” But he made no promises that these would be part of IE 9.Participants within the ExpertZone chat also asked Microsoft officials about recently reported problems between sites running in Restricted Sites zone (like SpywareBlaster, Spybot, etc.) and the final IE 8 build.Eric Lawrence, IE Security Program Manager, responded:“This was a side-effect of a recent change to better support non-standard top-level-domains which are becoming more common. You can read about the general issue with non-standard TLDs on IE8 maintains an internal public suffix list. That list changes IE;s handling of ‘known; special TLDs. Unfortunately, the Zones registry format has a dependency on TLDs, which means that we must recalculate the registry against this new TLD list. That works fine within the general case, but fails badly when there are thousands of sites in the lists. We;re working on this issue.”(Again, no official word on when a fix might be coming. I;d doubt this one will have to wait until IE 9, nonetheless.)I asked Zhu Yan,
Office 2010 Home And Business, who runs the LiveSino.Net enthusiast site, what he;d like to see in IE 9. He had a wish list a mile long already,
Office 2010 Professional, including everything through the aforementioned download manager,
Office Standard, to on line Favorites service and Windows Live ############## synchronization. He also said he;s wishing for better rendering, more compelling third-party add-ons and integration with Morro (the OneCare security service replacement that Microsoft hasn;t said anything about for months).What are you hoping to see in IE nine?