IE8 Beta now available
Fast on the heels of yesterday's announcement, they have a beta version out:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx
Apparently it does install on top of IE 7 (isn't that bright) but there is a way to switch to IE 7 rendering mode.
They have some interesting new features in here with these "slices" and "activities" bits. Not sure what I think about those... Activities seems much like what Opera's had for ages with the ability to right-click on selected text and go directly to services like dictionary, encyclopedia or translations. Slices seem to be just a microformat - this implementation is kind of interesting.
Edit: Is it just me or does anyone else hate how browsers all insist on installing their own bookmarks? Irritating. Have to remove them every time. I must admit that Opera is a bad culprit with this, installing a huge library of bookmarks. At least they don't put it back in when you upgrade.
AyntRyte posted this at 04:12 — 6th March 2008.
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I got it earlier and wasted about 15 minutes before I got bored with it
caffinephil posted this at 10:40 — 6th March 2008.
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I hate that too Megan. I wouldn't mind an option on install that asked if I wanted them, an option to remove them all simply rather than deleting one at a time or I'd even settle for them all to be grouped in one folder.
Greg K posted this at 12:48 — 6th March 2008.
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Interesting, check out the memory requirements:
Windows Vista: 512Megs
Windows XP: 64Megs
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Hafsoh posted this at 07:39 — 11th March 2008.
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Even if IE10 will be released, i will prefer firefox lol..
Megan posted this at 16:02 — 11th March 2008.
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Yeah, but we have to test in IE, that's the important thing. I hope they will keep us up to date on the timelines for IE 8 and keep releasing beta versions so we can fix anything that needs it well ahead of the release.
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JeevesBond posted this at 11:21 — 12th March 2008.
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Naturally, no IE release would be complete without some Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactics built-in. Methinks this is IE6 all over again.
web-creation posted this at 05:01 — 18th April 2008.
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Hmm, now if only they can convince people to upgrade from IE5 we'd be set.
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Michael James Swan posted this at 09:01 — 24th May 2008.
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I personally do not like Internet Explorer since I know for a fact that it sends data back to Microsoft without my consent. I used bandwidth monitors for this and even when I had no homepage and it was just about blank, it would start to send and try to receive data as soon as I click on the icon to open it.
I did not even have an internet connection so what ever it was, was being done internally.
I prefer Firefox or Opera.
I shall check it out and if I like it, I shall post back, otherwise, let’s say that I dislike it, EH.
Heck I am even going to make a post in My Blog about it. LOL Check it out if you want.
Edit:
So, I have finally downloaded IE 8 BETA, Installed it and gave it a 10 minute test run...
It has some nice new features and I quite like the developer tools.
Although when I was typing I did notice quite a large delay in the reaction speed compared to what I was typing.
This then ended up crashing the browser and so now I am back on Firefox posting here.
I still have IE 8 BETA installed and shall give it another go later in the day.
allenion posted this at 09:19 — 4th June 2008.
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first beta crashed before I could really - test beta 2 has been anounced for august cant wait!!
but despite all our moaning the majority of users are on IE so its here to stay
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Greensphere posted this at 23:05 — 4th June 2008.
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Hopefully it will be a significant improvement on the current version which is undoubtedly my least favourite browser.
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