After a long silence, the Microsoft IE team finally announce some long awaited news on IE8, it’s going to be called Internet Explorer 8. After months of silence I’m glad they cleared that one up! No news on features, bugfixes, etc. Ex-Microsoft employee Al Billings (who was responsible for a lot of the IE7 blogging) puts it well.
UK East Coast rail operator GNER has launched a new website which features an improved booking engine. Prior to this all UK rail operators used a branded version of thetrainline which is looking a bit dated these days. This new site raises the bar as to what to expect from a rail booking engine. (more…)
Things have been quiet here for a while. I’ve been too busy to follow progress on the browser fronts, Firefox 3 will be out next year sometime and Microsoft are being very quiet about plans for IE8. From what I can see, Firefox usage continues to grow as does that of other browsers such as Safari and Opera.