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Microsoft launched the ultimate version of World wide web Explorer eight (IE 8) to the Internet specifically per week in the past. But that doesn;t imply end users and developers are satisfied. As an alternative, various are champing at the bit to obtain Microsoft to commit to their preferred lacking attributes for IE 9.Microsoft, for its part, won;t say something about IE 9, other than it;s in the organizing stage. During an IE 8 Professional Zone Web chat on March 25, members of the IE group reminded participants that Microsoft isn;t ready to talk whatsoever about IE nine dates or functions. The group certainly isn;t ready but to accept officially ideas from your user/developer base for Microsoft;s subsequent browser update.(”We will be placing a new form on [the Microsoft private test site] Connect for improvements for the next version of IE. We will send out an email towards the Technical Beta participants when it is available on Connect,” one Softie told chat participants yesterday.)Microsoft;s attempts to slow things down isn;t stopping customers from pitching their top priorities from their IE nine wish lists. Among the functions participants and other consumers with whom I;ve spoken are mentioning: a file download manager, support for a range of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Version 3 attributes, an XML parser, sounds for Internet Slices,Office 2010 Pro Key, better RSS support, and more granular control over JavaScript pages.One chat participant opined that password save/confirmation shouldn;t force an IE page load/login.Kymberlee Price, a Program Manager for Security on the IE crew, responded:“Password management is one thing we looked at in IE8 but ultimately had to cut. As a user I totally understand why this is a popular and compelling scenario. But as a security person I see it as fraught with challenges to implement. Login with a single master password for example - differentiation of passwords is beneficial to protecting sensitive data like bank accounts separate from less sensitive data like Twitter accounts.”Another chatter said XHTML+MathML support would help students and others who need to publish math-centric content on the Internet. A Microsoft official said Microsoft is hearing “plenty of requests for this feature, as well as for scalable vector graphics (SVG),Office 2007 Ultimate Key, “both of which add richer presentation to the Internet.” But he made no promises that these would be part of IE nine.Participants in the ExpertZone chat also asked Microsoft officials about recently reported problems between sites running in Restricted Sites zone (like SpywareBlaster,Microsoft Office 2010, Spybot, etc.) and the ultimate IE 8 build.Eric Lawrence, IE Security Program Manager, responded:“This was a side-effect of a recent change to better support non-standard top-level-domains which are becoming more common. You can read about the general issue with non-standard TLDs on IE8 maintains an internal public suffix list. That list changes IE;s handling of ‘known; special TLDs. Unfortunately, the Zones registry format has a dependency on TLDs, which means that we must recalculate the registry against this new TLD list. That works fine within the general case, but fails badly when there are thousands of sites within the lists. We;re working on this issue.”(Again, no official word on when a fix might be coming. I;d doubt this one will have to wait until IE 9, even so.)I asked Zhu Yan, who runs the LiveSino.Net enthusiast site, what he;d like to see in IE nine. He had a wish list a mile long already, including everything through the aforementioned download manager,Office 2010 Sale, to on the web Favorites service and Windows Live ############## synchronization. He also said he;s wishing for better rendering,Office 2007 Standard Key, more compelling third-party add-ons and integration with Morro (the OneCare security service replacement that Microsoft hasn;t said something about for months).What are you hoping to see in IE nine?