Ensight – Jeremy Wright

Whoops, forgot to make a note of the official post over on the IE blog.

Once again, here are the high points I’m expecting for IE7, based on loads of chats with loads of folks (inside and outside the company):

1. Leaner, thinner, faster
2. Absolute best standards support in the industry
3. Best security in the industry (IE basically already does this at a conceptual level, but the model needs some work)… Included in this I’d say features like “return to default configuration”, “block all adjustments unless specifically approved”, etc
4. Improved popup blocking, as well as ad blocking
5. Much better tabs interface

But, I’m expecting more beyond that. IE7 is Microsoft’s chance to fully bridge this generation of computers to Longhorn’s generation of computers, so they’ll put a lot of “enabling” technologies in as well, which will make a lot of interesting things, like AJAX, even more possible and easy to develop.

I’ve been preaching all of this for months though. I wasn’t preaching PNG specifically, because I wasn’t allowed to mention it, but my line was “The IE Team wants to be the most standards compliant and supporting browser ever… Is PNG a standard? *wink wink, nudge nudge*”