Internet Explorer 8 beta 1

[AthlonXP1800]

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 and it now available to download for 32/64bit Vista and XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

New IE8 features included:

Activities
WebSlices
Favorites Bar
Automatic Crash Recovery
Improved Phishing Filter

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/NewFeatures.htm

Thankfully it now got Automatic Crash Recovery, really hated annoyed IE7 crashed and lost all IE7 and tabs windows. With ACR, it work like GPU recovery error. :)

[stncttr908]

I'll try it out on a VM since it'll almost certainly destroy IE7. I like that Firefox 3 beta works alongside 2.x perfectly.

More web standards compliance FTW.

[nekrosoft13]

any screenshots?

[zoomy942]

downloading now

[nekrosoft13]

zoomy where is homer?

[zoomy942]

so, this download is a piece of crap. UGH. i have vista SP1 and it says IE8 isnt compatible with my version of the Vista Service pack i have.

[hokeyplyr48]

haha could the interviewer be any more unemotional?

"wow that's cool" "very cool" (monotone)

[AthlonXP1800]

any screenshots?

Here one running on VMWare, I removed Favourite Bar and changed all text icons to icons only. Looked similar to IE7 but with a few enhancements.

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/6881/ie8b1ji3.png (http://imageshack.us)

[AthlonXP1800]

so, this download is a piece of crap. UGH. i have vista SP1 and it says IE8 isnt compatible with my version of the Vista Service pack i have.

That odd, accorded to system requirement it worked with Vista SP1, tested just ran the setup file on Vista SP1 and it worked fine.

[zoomy942]

i had to remove my beta SP1

[Uberpwnage]

Seems to be really slow when posting on this forum, and some of the font is screwed up, atleast for me.

[Bman212121]

zoomy where is homer?

No TV and no beer make Homer something something...

[six_storm]

Hmm, why not just call it IE 7.5?

[Banko]

Hmm, why not just call it IE 7.5?
Because the inner workings are redone? As in it follows the CSS Standard and other Web standards more closely then Firefox/Safari/Konqueror/Opera ?

[nekrosoft13]

and since its still the most popular browser this might finally force webmasters to follow the web standards more closely

[Uberpwnage]

It's pretty buggy from my experience on Vista x64 SP1, when using the mouse wheel to scroll, it will restart at the top of the page about half-way down.

[ViN86]

and since its still the most popular browser this might finally force webmasters to follow the web standards more closely
yea, but i like how firefox and opera allow me to be lazy lol. :D

[Runningman]

and since its still the most popular browser this might finally force webmasters to follow the web standards more closely
and with what you just stated, hopefully tighter security comes with it. I have a feeling thoe, that with a new rendering engine so does new zero day exploits.