I doubt that Google began building this to compete with IE8 when it was announced given how slowly they build stuff ;) I bet its more a happy confluence of eve

I doubt that Google began building this to compete with IE8 when it was announced given how slowly they build stuff ;) I bet its more a happy confluence of events that so much browser news has been happening of late. I think most browser "creators" kind of had roughly the same ideas year(s?) back and decided to move in the same direction since everyone is using the same web and facing largely the same problems.