Microsoft has released a public beta for Internet Explorer 8. This release is intended to help web designers and web developers prepare for the upcoming version of the browser.
Some of the most important features for developers are the improved compatibility and interoperability and the new developer toolbar which enables developers to quickly debug HTML, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript in a visual development environment. Other improvements are the full integration for cascading style sheets, version 2.1 as well as the HTML improvements like the separate URL handing for attributes.
Easier and faster, Internet Explorer 8 will offer three different rendering modes :
Some new features are also added. For example Activities and WebSlices.
Activities are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any webpage.
WebSlices behave just like feeds in that users can subscribe to them and receive update notifications when the content changes.
View the full list of features on the Microsoft website
Download Internet Explorer 8 public beta (for web designers and developers)
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April 8, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The developer toolbar looks pretty decent, lets just hope it implemented well
April 8, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Yeah, Andi the developer toolbar is pretty interesting. Also a feature I forgot to mention in the article is the “Emulate IE 7″ button. Makes the browser behave, navigate and display pages like IE 7. That’s also an interesting tool for developers.
April 9, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Perhaps a similar toolbar will soon be spread out across different web browser platforms such as Firefox.
April 9, 2008 at 2:20 pm
That would be cool, indeed.
April 10, 2008 at 12:59 pm
The jury is out for me. I’ll wait for the final release.
April 10, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I found a lot of bugs while using this latest IE browser. I think IE7 is better than it. Though, it’s not yet final…
btw, aol.com looks like trash on IE8
April 11, 2008 at 8:12 am
Hi
It is a very nice post and I rally like it.
April 26, 2008 at 5:55 am
I really hope that ie8 is better than ie7. Now I don’t know whether it’s because I’m using Windows Vista or not, but ie7 is very unstable for me. I use Firefox for all my browsing unless the site is built for Internet Explorer only. Even then I have found that Safari will work in many of those cases.
May 11, 2008 at 3:10 am
i will try it but i like firefox