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Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explorer 8 will adhere to the same standards as competitors’ programs.Microsoft’s browsers, including the current Internet Explorer 7, gained notoriety among Web developers for handling Web page code differently than Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, Apple Inc.’s Safari, the now-defunct Netscape Navigator and others.

For the most part, major non-Microsoft browsers and outside developers who built Web pages worked with agreed-upon technical standards, while Microsoft was accused of adding proprietary code to those standards. The result: Web pages that looked good in Internet Explorer but broke on other browsers, or vice versa.

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Mitchell Baker has one of the best job titles in computing: she’s chief lizard wrangler at Mozilla, creator of the Firefox web browser, which has a reptilian mascot named after Godzilla. If I ever had a fancy dress party, I’d invite her to appear in character. And she might. Although she trained as a lawyer, she’s also a trapeze artist, so there’s clearly more to her than meets the eye.

Mozilla started with Netscape Communications, but the company was originally called Mosaic, after the first popular web browser. Baker joined Netscape’s legal department in 1994, and has been involved with Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox ever since.

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Although Apple didn’t offered any important iPhone upgrades, the device still made waves.

Apple sold more than 4 million iPhones since it was launched and it seems that Google received more traffic from iPhone this Christmas, than from any other mobile device. That means that many people that own iPhones used it to access the Internet.
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