So I’ve seen a lot of websites talk about the new IE8 beta. Some, even call it the surprise of the year because of it’s support for Web Standards. Others talk about all the new features it offers, and some others even compare it to Firefox.

As this article points out: http://mashable.com/2008/03/05/firefox-ie-fight/ There’s really no innovation on IE8 and all the features are more of a catching up to other browsers than anything else. I mean, when the main hype comes from being a web standard browser, when other browsers have been doing this for ages, well…as the article points out: “You’ve got a problem.”