IE8 Public Beta

[Evolution]

yeah I'm getting the jumbled Neowin headline problem as well...

BTW here's the ACID3 test results:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

JavaScript support is still pretty lousy, and it still ignores the mime-type text/plain.

But CSS support is very much improved.

[azz0r_wugg]

Jebus, the tab bars and links thing are too high.

I prefer ie6 in terms of layout and customization.

Bring back draggable customizable tool bars for god sake.

I won't even considering switching until the header takes less than 50px.

[Amano]

Thanks for the update! Let's try it.

[ObiWanToby]

I wonder how long before websites start supporting IE8. The Emulate IE7 button looks to be a good thing to use...even when devloping a webpage.

[kainashi]

thanks for the heads up. going to give this a test drive although i'm a firefox lover. ;)

[Roger H. Veteran]

hmm.. i noticed something kinda cool.

the website you're visiting is brighter while the rest is kinda faded in the address bar. Like neowin.net/forums - the rest of the address - forums/xxxx/xxxx/ is all faded but neowin.net is bright. I guess it's probably part of the phishing thing?

[PGHammer]

hmm.. i noticed something kinda cool.

the website you're visiting is brighter while the rest is kinda faded in the address bar. Like neowin.net/forums - the rest of the address - forums/xxxx/xxxx/ is all faded but neowin.net is bright. I guess it's probably part of the phishing thing?

Yup. This was highlighted in the video on Channel 10.

[simmorya]

Im downloading it now. As far as I know, this does not pass the acid tests. I could be wrong.

Maybe we will see it pass ACID3 by RTM?

Windows Vista 32-bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Windows Vista 64-bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Windows XP SP2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Edited March 5, 2008 by simmorya

[simmorya]

its available for download from microsoft now.

[Randolph]

its available for download from microsoft now.

A little to late there buddy. ;)

[Randolph]

Yeah theres like 5+ other threads on this already lol. Thanks though.

[Dane]

Hmmm the one thing I wish they would change...Is to be able to select text and drag it into the search bar and it searches. Like in firefox, select,drag and drop and its already loading the search.

[idoia]

yeah I'm getting the jumbled Neowin headline problem as well...

BTW here's the ACID3 test results:

EPIC FAIL

[sweetsam]

It passes acid2. There is a brief pause for some reason while it is rendering the page. So give it a couple of seconds and you will see it passes.

[what]

Yeah the Acid3 result is awful. WebKit will probably hit 100/100 by this time next week, and yet IE8 and its new standards-compliant engine barely manages anything more than 10 or 11.

[Justin-]

the website you're visiting is brighter while the rest is kinda faded in the address bar. Like neowin.net/forums - the rest of the address - forums/xxxx/xxxx/ is all faded but neowin.net is bright. I guess it's probably part of the phishing thing?

Maybe it's just me, but I don't really like having half my address grayed out and the rest of it standing out like that.

I just installed IE8 Beta for Vista. It appears to have broken more websites. I really hope this isn't going to be a case where you have to fix web pages where they'll look good in Firefox (all versions will work pretty much the same) and Internet Explorer (where you have to make them work for IE 6, 7, and 8).

Firefox 3 nightly builds with IE Tab works great, definitely sticking with Firefox 3. And, as an added bonus, the browser looks a lot better (and if you don't like the look today, wait until tomorrow, it's changing all the time right now). ;)

I used IE for years and have switched to Firefox just in the past year or two. It's an okay start, but no where near where the browser should be, or should already be.

Edited March 5, 2008 by Justin-

[That Guy Veteran]

Screenshots anyone?

[majortom1981]

Hmmm the one thing I wish they would change...Is to be able to select text and drag it into the search bar and it searches. Like in firefox, select,drag and drop and its already loading the search.

ON ie8 if you slect text then click the arrow that appears you can click search to do a search.

[Ayepecks]

It's a decent start, but a ton of sites aren't rendered correctly for me, and it just seems slow for some reason.

One question I have is why is there left/right scroll on the screen no matter what? That's kind of annoying. It also breaks some IE Pro stuff.

[Roger H. Veteran]

i don't have horizontal scroll bars so that must be something with your setup. You are right about some sites not working right tho....

[EricRob]

I downloaded IE 8 and it said that I needed to install an update so I chose OK to install the update then it tells me that my computer failed to install the update to press DOWNLOAD to install the update. So, long story short I go to this download page the install takes you to and download the update and when I try to apply the update it tells me that the service pack I'm running (XP SP3) doesn't need this update and I don't need to update.

So, IE 8 tells me I need to update but when I try to update it tells me I don't need the update!!!????!

Anyone else getting this or have a suggestion

[EricRob]

I downloaded IE 8 and it said that I needed to install an update so I chose OK to install the update then it tells me that my computer failed to install the update to press DOWNLOAD to install the update. So, long story short I go to this download page the install takes you to and download the update and when I try to apply the update it tells me that the service pack I'm running (XP SP3) doesn't need this update and I don't need to update.

So, IE 8 tells me I need to update but when I try to update it tells me I don't need the update!!!????!

Anyone else getting this or have a suggestion

[what]

Heh, not even uk.msn.com shows up right :p

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

IE8 is going to render sites wrong if the sites are using hacks and such.

You know how Firefox will render some IE only sites badly?, IE8 is in the same boat now.

And forget about Acid3 guys, lets focus on better CSS 2.1 support first.