Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.
Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003
View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features
Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:
- Activities
- WebSlices
- Favorites Bar
- Automatic Crash Recovery
- Improved Phishing Filter
Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.
Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003
View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Shoot, I'm guessing it doesn't want Vista SP 1 installed. Refuses to install says wrong service pack configuration. Figures.
If your Firefox 2 crashes, it askes if you want to restore. Close enough.
From what I can see Activities and WebSlices are both based around Microformats (and pre-existing ones as well)
That's excellent, IE team needs some praise.
Edit: Holy crap, data: URI support, CSS print rules support, Selector API support, this is great.
And about damn time too.
Nope, The newer version overwrite the older version.
Nope, The newer version overwrite the older version.
It has a feature that allows you to emulate IE7
Still, I'm really glad to hear about the better standards compliance, long overdue but very welcome none the less and I'd be upgrading to IE8 based on that reason alone.
I think I'll use the Beta as well.
Great stuff. IE8 sounds really exciting.
Note: the current version is not yet IE8 compatible
That was hilarious! :rofl:
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huh?
I haven't used IE in a while, but couldn't you already use the Links Bar for everything but WebSlices (being a new feature) before? I think that at least in Firefox and Opera, RSS links just pops up a submenu with the latest feeds, and there's nothing stopping you from placing local files in there either (I just checked on IE 7 and it worked there too)?
everything has changed, ie8 beta 1 passes the acid test
everything has changed, ie8 beta 1 passes the acid test
Hes talking about the UI, Sevan.. Most things in the UI doesnt change in a Beta 1.
It doesn't matter yet though, the download links on that page are not yet live.
+1
If you want a download manager, go install IE8Pro when it's released.
Why more bells and whistles? That's what producing a new version of a product is all about. Any other bright questions?
A download manager, however, is not a bell/whistle. It's a useful tool to view download history and pause progress. It's not a content-driven or service-driven item, and it aids in finding files quickly I need to open. It's a reasonable request. Look how long it took to add a Print Preview function!
As an instructional designer, I know pushing a product with more clutter is counter-productive to whatever it is you're trying to get done on the web. Keep what's important and useful on the front-end and leave the rest as optional add-ons.
A download manager is not important and not that useful for a great number of people.
On top of that it is a prime candidate for a plugin since it runs in its own window and needs little interaction with the host application.
Maybe we can look forward to some add-ons for IE 8, just like Firefox [In the final release].
COME ON MICROSOFT!
No, 9:30 AM. Dang, 1 hour 25 min and counting....
Please bill gates, think on kittens.
Pretty much, anyways im still waiting to install it on my workstation and screw all the os. :-P
i'm not overly impressed so far.
So as you see,almost everything is new in this broswer ,incuulding some changes to the UI
Ain't some of those features actually originated from FireFox and its Extensions - eg. Adblock Plus,
Then why not bitch about the fact Mozilla "copied" the address bar, navigation buttons, bookmark bar, customizable toolbar, search bar, tabbed bar and every other feature it's got from somewhere?
p.s. I'm not talking about you virtorio
Silverlight is shaping up to be something special now. I hope to see more of it soon and that now you can use it in Vista gadgets make it even better.
unless there's a 64 bit silverlight available now, since it didn't work on x64 because there was no Silverlight for x64
They are intermittently working. I guess it takes time to propagate across the M$ servers. Until it's fully up, keep trying and you will be taken to the appropriate download page.
Some more links:
IE8 for Windows XP (SP2): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
IE8 for Windows Server 2003 (SP2):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en
On Silverlight: the mere fact that it's neither exclusive to IE *or* Windows should worry Adobe. The fact that it can replace both Flash and Shockwave (while being lighter on the client than either), should scare them.
With all this talk of vista beeing bloated, now what is Adobe reader?
I'm a rat for MS betas
Same here.
Godamnit!
Hard rock cafe demo was neat..
Stop screaming, and you're obviously doing something wrong. Others have already tried it and said it does.
For the record I'm using Vista x64 SP1.
Last edited by TCLN Ryster on 05 Mar 2008 - 20:32
http://i29.tinypic.com/1zb9q8h.jpg
Windows XP x64 Edition, so perhaps it's a problem with the 64-bit versions for 2003 and XP?
http://i29.tinypic.com/1zb9q8h.jpg
Windows XP x64 Edition, so perhaps it's a problem with the 64-bit versions for 2003 and XP?
I get the same exact thing. On WinXP 32-bit. So I don't think it's a 64-bit issue
I think Mr. Venom is running in IE7 emulation mode.
I think Mr. Venom is running in IE7 emulation mode.
I am not running in ie7 mode and it didnt pass for me. this is 32bit vista.
no, look at the URLs for both screenshots
no, look at the URLs for both screenshots
Yeah I noticed that. As far as I'm aware, the official test is the one on the webstandards.org website. Those that fail the test from the acidtests.org website should try running the official test at http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html (which appears to be down at the time of posting this).
Should render correctly, regardless of what domain it's hosted on.
Should render correctly, regardless of what domain it's hosted on.
The two pages are different. The one which passes has the object data source set to http://www.webstandards.org/404/
The one which fails has data source set to http://www.damowmow.com/404/.
The cross-domain access is by default disabled for data sources for security reasons.
You can goto Internet Options->Security->Custom Level and set 'Access data sources across domains' and tests will pass on both URLs!!
in MAxthon it seems to still be using the old 7 engine though, not sure if that's ebcause it runs ie8 in IE7 mode, or if maxthon is somehow still using IE7
The one which fails has data source set to http://www.damowmow.com/404/.
The cross-domain access is by default disabled for data sources for security reasons.
You can goto Internet Options->Security->Custom Level and set 'Access data sources across domains' and tests will pass on both URLs!!
Hey, thanks for the tip. It passes now.
Should render correctly, regardless of what domain it's hosted on.
The two pages are different. The one which passes has the object data source set to http://www.webstandards.org/404/
The one which fails has data source set to http://www.damowmow.com/404/.
The cross-domain access is by default disabled for data sources for security reasons.
You can goto Internet Options->Security->Custom Level and set 'Access data sources across domains' and tests will pass on both URLs!!
Ah ok, i tried the cached version of the acid2 test on webstandards.org, but that one just redirected me to acid2.acidtests.org, so that's why i thought it was odd.
Why some of you wont realize that its still BETA 1 , meaning that the UI is to be changed.
THe best thing to do is to right click areas and see what options pop up and you would have found the menu option.
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http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Inte...load-95339.html
Links are apparently working.
Those links are the same as the ones on the IE8 page posted with the news article.
Just download it directly from Microsoft. I never trust these shady file download sites, especially when they leech the bandwidth of other sites just to get ad revenue for themselves.
Download it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/...ess/Install.htm
Same here. I doubt that Microsoft's test machines have the same exact configurations that I have, so I don't really expect it to render perfectly, especially since it is a beta. I must say that it is much better than it was though!
http://pg55kw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUDk...C1XA/iAcid2.PNG
And it does something weird at Wikipedia. Looks like its painting text over and over again on top of the last painting, as we go down the page.
http://pg55kw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUDk...3rE0A/iWiki.PNG
And what the hell? They took the favicons away from address bar dropdown. I used them to quickly identify the site to go!!! Gmail works fine here, btw.
Edit: Not linking the images. Thats way to large.
Last edited by soumyasch on 05 Mar 2008 - 20:28
Some of the things that Acid3 tests like CSS3 is not even a standard right now. Many of the tests are based on W3C working drafts.
Yeah, I tried running it at http://acid2.acidtests.org/. It didn't work there, and the official one kept timing out. :p
Thanks for noting that the official one should be used.
In my case, I run IE 8 at 1600x1200 (the same resolution I ran IE 7 at).
Wow. That is nuts!
In a way, yes, you can. You would need to turn on the "Emulate IE7" feature.
Acid3 test:
17/100 (to compare, if I remember correctly Safari 3.1 Beta scores at 87 [might not be true])
FireFox Beta 3 - 59/100
Opera 9.5 Beta 1 - 60/100
Safari 3.1 (31A15) Windows - 76/100 (Webkit wins)
Small JavaScript Performance test: (same versions)
FireFox - 3174ms (It looks that problem is in string functions, it required a lot of time for FireFox, 35950ms)
IE - 1383ms
Opera - 1267ms
Safari - 721ms (Webkit wins)
Last edited by david13lt on 05 Mar 2008 - 20:56
http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html (site was down at the time of posting this though).
@eAi, thanks for wonderful news...
I am also getting a 15-20 second lag when typing in the comment box here. Anyone else with the same problems?
so that's useless to me, not a feature.
Looks very good but you can tell it is a beta 1. There were a few anomolies on different sites main one being MSN home page with a huge map being displayed and no way to get rid of it! Think I will wait for next beta and try again
Regards
Scoop
I'm a bit disappointed by the webslices feature. I hoped it would be possible to webslice any feed but the feeds/pages have to be prepared for it. Nontheless quite cool. Try it out at ie8.ebay.com.
I wonder how they got MSN Weather into a webslice in the preview screenshots.
Last edited by pippi123 on 05 Mar 2008 - 21:56
The info located here (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/DevelopersExisting.htm) just tells you how to detect the browser so you can have two different versions of your page.
Oh well. It is still Beta 1. Microsoft have got a lot of work on their hands.
Guess I have to wait till SP1 is installed.
Why are you still running beta? Vista SP1 final (aka RC Refresh 2) has been available to the public for ages.
When I go post message at forum, it "stall" for 30 secinid or more then it take my letter slow
If I go Wiki article, when I click pikture it take longer time to load, but then when I go back (one button press) it go back 3 or pages more.
I remove after hour
NICE!
Does anyone know how to turn off AutoComplete in the address bar? mine is set to be off, but still does autocomplete, and I hate that crap. About the only prob I found with IE 8.
IE8 NEEDS a download manager, Vista isn't too great at keeping a wireless connection active for me using a wireless adapter.
Um you mean a download manager?
However, it reminds me a little bit of the hidden developer tools in Safari... Box model illustrations anybody? IE has them just like Safari.
I can hear the rip-off trolls coming now... And in an attempt to satisfy those trolls, I shall present an argument: the entire product is not a rip-off of another product if only certain features are taken from that other product. BAM! Trolls died due to lack of argument. j/k :p
Scirwode
Will keep experimenting on it but props to Microsoft for getting a public beta out - this really seems like it is being developer driven rather than "marketing" driven, so props to the IE8 devs.
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