Firefox 3

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I've had version 3.0 for weeks already

WHS

Mine's the Beta version though.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Why, is there something wrong with Internet Explorer?

Yep - they haven't ported it to Ubuntu yet.

[voodooflux]

Yep - they haven't ported it to Ubuntu yet.

Any hardcore Ubuntu user should be using Lynx anyway

[NickFitz]

Kudos to Microsoft for finally recognising that, although there is the danger that with a completely new engine we end up effectively having to target another browser.

FWIW, I have reason to suspect that they're building on the IE5-Mac engine Tasman, which was a good implementation of most of CSS 2 and should therefore provide a solid basis for a good CSS 2.1 implementation.

This suspicion is based on the fact of an obscure comment-parsing bug in IE5-Mac also being present in the first IE8 beta - it seems very unlikely that such an obscure bug would be created twice independently, and Tantek Çelik (who wrote Tasman) no longer works for MS, so it's not somebody making the same mistake twice.

It makes sense really - if you've got a working (though outdated) implementation just sitting there gathering dust, you might as well start with that

[Moscow Mule]

Geek factor = 1 googolplex

[voodooflux]

snip

That's interesting, and an entirely reasonable assertion.

[voodooflux]

Geek factor = 1 googolplex

Is that good?

[realityhack]

JFGI

I like that term. I shall be using that at clientco forthwith. Cheers NF.

[voodooflux]

Well the Firefox download page is unavailable at the moment, so I'm guessing they've released version 3 final.

[KevinS]

Well the Firefox download page is unavailable at the moment, so I'm guessing they've released version 3 final.

Managed to download it at 8:30 or so last night.. Is VERY quick at rendering..