Microsoft 和 Mozilla Foundation 正在下一代浏览器市场上继续较劲,Mozilla已经公布了Firefox 3 (code-named "Gran Paradiso)的开发计划,并且已经连出两个Alpha版本,看上去对IE威胁很大,预计该版本将在2007年第三或第四季度发布.而一方面,根据我们此前报导的消息,微软已经开始开发IE8,但又一个消息是在Microsoft Mix '07会议之前不会看到关于IE8的任何内容.
Mozilla Foundation "必须做到的"功能列表(Firefox 3):
• Improved interaction with add-ons, in terms of installation, configuration and management
• Support for extensible bookmarks, bookmarks and history annotation.
• Support for Web services so they can act as content handlers
• Better Web printing support
• An MSI installer for Windows systems
• Built-in support for Microsoft's CardSpace, as well as OpenID
• Replacement of TalkBack with Airbag, the Google-backed open-source crash reporting tool
IE team 声称需要做到的(大部分集中在兼容性和CSS上):
• "Locking" a page to prevent users from accidentally navigating away from it
• Adding a "Find on Page" capability
• Improving username/password management
• Restoring the "Image Toolbar" provided in earlier IE 7 test builds
• Changing the download mechanism, perhaps eliminating the initial download to the "temporary Internet files" folder
• Adding easily editable config files (similar to Firefox's userChrome.css and UserContent.css)
• Enabling draggable tabs from one IE window to another
• Configuring tabs so that each has its own private cookie cache
• Introducing new status bar info, possibly with fields such as "last accessed by user" and "window last updated"
• Enabling add-ons, such as stocks, movies, etc., a la Firefox
可以预料,双方的恶战不可避免.
