IE8 Public Beta

[George P Global Moderator]

I'm going to download it as I type this. The MIX demo was pretty cool.

[Ayepecks]

OK, but websites that are rendered fine in every browser I have (FF, Opera, IE7) just don't render correctly in IE8.

I don't know why I have the horizontal scrollbar for some reason... I don't see an option for it anywhere.

Another minor cosmetic thing: everytime I open a new tab my locked toolbar messes up, too.

[david13lt]

Wait, wait... Look at this one:

:D

[Si Veteran]

Merged

[Niels.]

IE8 has destroyed the Live Maps application, as wel as all other maps applications and other applications that hide content under the rest of the page. It's kinda slow, and i have a horizontal scrollbar everywhere I go :(. It also has rendering problems on a lot of websites, but that is probably the fault of those websites (i'm looking at you neowin devs :shifty:).

The activities on the other hand are kind of cool, and the rendering engine seems to render a lot of pages more like Firefox. So there has been a lot of improvement but the devs still have a long way to go to get the Triton engine to overcome the javascript flaws.

[SnowRanger13]

Wait, wait... Look at this one:

:D

With 3 rendering engines I knew IE8 would be larger then IE7 but 78GB damn Microsoft :laugh:

[sweetsam]

Wait, wait... Look at this one:

:D

lol I too see a horizontal scrollbar. The form elements seem to behave significantly different compared to IE7. pseudo states such as active on form elements are finally supported ! Heading int he right direction but have some ways to go for sure.

[Soldiers33]

Just tried accessing my hotmail via ie8 and it wont let me :(. says that I should report the error to microsoft.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Internet Explorer 8 beta feels really bloated to me... but I understand it's a beta.

[Equalizer]

anyone else try the acid2 test and it fail? i just tried and it didnt display right

[mad_onion]

yes, if the menu is that big in the final it's going to be pretty annoying. ie7 has imo a virtually perfect ui. they hneed to make the menu in 8 much smaller. currently there is a lot of wasted space.

[Doli]

Strange, the Latest Forum Activity part on neowin looked like garbage but now its fine and working. Im not in "Emulate IE7" mode.

Betas are funny

[Slimy]

Strange, the Latest Forum Activity part on neowin looked like garbage but now its fine and working. Im not in "Emulate IE7" mode.

Betas are funny

Nothing to do with it being a beta: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=623869

[HawkMan]

About IE8 not rendering webpages correctly in standards mode while FF and Opera does.

Remember that both FF and Opera have adopted a lot of code into their engines to render IE designed webpages correctly. while IE8 standards ode is just plain standards.

[Evolution]

yes, if the menu is that big in the final it's going to be pretty annoying. ie7 has imo a virtually perfect ui. they hneed to make the menu in 8 much smaller. currently there is a lot of wasted space.

It's only that size with the favourites menu enabled.... if you disable it, then it looks just like IE7.

[coolzee]

it crash on me two times..after..it works perfect..Lol

anyways good start for beta 1. :)

ps. I also like the new stuff as well..

[smokeandnostress]

Does anyone have a problem that webpages keep "blinking"?

[tunafish]

I hope they get some good support for ACID3 with Beta2 as it kind of blows up and fails lol

Anyone think the right click menu is far to big

[smokeandnostress]

I hope they get some good support for ACID3 with Beta2 as it kind of blows up and fails lol

Anyone think the right click menu is far to big

People complain about standards: Now shuts up the bitches and IE8 passes them 100%

People complain about nonstandards being standard: Now people bitch

People complain about the ACID3 test when NO browser completes the test 100: Now people bitch

Conclusion: People are bitches.

[coolzee]

I hope they get some good support for ACID3 with Beta2 as it kind of blows up and fails lol

Anyone think the right click menu is far to big

totally agree with the right click menu thing..compare it to FF. :p

[tunafish]

People complain about standards: Now shuts up the bitches and IE8 passes them 100%

People complain about nonstandards being standard: Now people bitch

People complain about the ACID3 test when NO browser completes the test 100: Now people bitch

Conclusion: People are bitches.

well considering IE8 Beta 1 failes ACID3 on 17%

FF 3.0 failes on 67%

What you posted makes no sence what so ever. IE8 dont require any non standard code to load a standard website

[Evolution]

Am I the only one noticing excessive use of the processor while loading pages?

[tunafish]

It's fine here. Using around 58mb of ram for 3 open tabs in windows vista

I found a bug

when you click one of these goto links on a page eg

index.php#Meh

IE8 will not goto the Meh section

[shooter468]

doesnt seem to work on xp sp3

[Medking]

who else can say....IE7?

hehe. i notice about two things that are different. hope it changes more, cus otherwise ill just ignore the next betas and continue with FF beta 4