Firefox 3 is coming, and right on the heels of the IE8 release. The new feature sets sounds great and early reviews are very positive. I’m going to wait a bit to jump onboard, mostly because I’ve got a number of extensions and don’t want to have to start tinkering with them to get them to work in the new version. I can wait.
One of the really interesting issues from a technical standpoint is support for cross site scripting requests. Basically this lets you create a web page that pulls its content from another site. Right now that’s kind of tricky, as your browser will block this direct linkage. The main way I’ve used to get around this is to program something on my server in a PHP script to pull the information, and then deliver it from the server to the user’s browser. But this is a pain as it requires that extra step, and certainly slows the information delivery. The reason for the block is to prevent bad stuff happening without the users knowledge. But for web 2.0 mashup type stuff, this new functionality could be very helpful.
Cross-Site XMLHttpRequest - MDC
IE 8: Cross scripting defense a double-edged sword | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
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