IE8 beta

[Tonywolfe121]

the new internet explorer 8 beta is here to see the new features go here https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie8 ... fault.html

to download go here https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

have fun and rember its still beta
here is a pic

[quote="Microsoft"]Over the last ten years, the intensity of web usage and people's reliance on the web has increased dramatically. The evolution of the web has introduced a new set of opportunities, immersive experiences, online services, and standards. Daily life without the web is simply hard for many people to imagine.

With this intensity and reliance, web developers and designers face an evolving set of needs including:

Interoperability and compatibility

Built-in tools that help both first time and experienced developers and designers get pages built right

Browser capabilities that enable innovative experiences

Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience beyond the page and introduce a new way to seamlessly experience the best of the web, whether you are a web developer writing to standards or an end-user discovering a new online service.

Activities
Activities are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any webpage. Activities typically involve one of two types of actions:

"Look up" information related to data in the current webpage

"Send" content from the current webpage to another application

WebSlices
Web sites can expose portions of their page as a WebSlice that users can subscribe to and bring that content with them on their links bar wherever they are on the web. Users receive update notifications when the content changes.
Choice of layout engine
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 will ship in standards mode by default. However, three different rendering modes that may be set using the X-UA-Compatible header:

Quirks mode which supports Internet Explorer 5 and legacy browsers

Strict mode which supports Internet Explorer 7 and is accessed through the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button

Internet Explorer 8 standards mode

Cascading style sheets 2.1 compliance
The Internet Explorer 8 layout engine is built to be cascading style sheets 2.1 compliant, enabling web developers and designers to write their pages once and have them render properly across all cascading style sheets 2.1 compatible browsers. However, Microsoft is not finished

[awalwang]

I have that Internet Explorer version. Pretty nice, by all accounts.

[HummersRock]

Meh. Firefox FTW.

[Franch88]

I already knew this news from weeks. I'll install it when the final version will be out.

[Anthony]

nah i prefer fireworks 3, I have had ie8 for a while too, didn't get an email this time though usually m$ email me saying like, would u like to beta test this.


also, who else thinks that the blankened part of the url is a good idea but does look a bit tacky.

[awalwang]

Bah, who cares? I'm sticking with my Minefield browser.

[Gafaddict]

nah i prefer fireworks 3, I have had ie8 for a while too, didn't get an email this time though

Yeah fireworks... I use that to edit images though :/

[Anthony]

i meant firefox, i get them mixed up and for some reason fireworks was in my head, btw i use fireworks8 can't afford the cs3 version :'(