Internet Explorer 8: What do you think?

[simmorya]

I cant beleive they went for the "Windows Vista Home Basic" theme. Text input seems delayed to me. I dont like it that much but I guess its still a beta. Thank god they are changing the look in following releases.

Edited March 15, 2008 by simmorya

[profets]

i dunno. been getting errors on vista with it so far. relatively new clean install of vista & sp1.

also a lot of sites seem to not render properly, including neowin. text looks all over the place

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

I love it (Y) Still using Firefox though :)

[Unimatrix Xero]

not to bad so far, i like the look of it..... got a few formatting issues with a few pages but im sure that will be fixed soon

[SnowRanger13]

IE8 Beta 1 I'd say is pretty much garbage. The idea of IE8 and getting to the standards is great but IE8 Beta 1 is not there.

[simmorya]

I get scrambled images on most websites. In both IE8 and IE7 mode. The performance is crap. The UI is discusting on Vista.

The list goes on. Im going back to IE7 until this RTM's. Worst beta of IE iv seen since IE4.0 imo.

[RichardK]

IE8 Beta 1 I'd say is pretty much garbage. The idea of IE8 and getting to the standards is great but IE8 Beta 1 is not there.

There aren't any "standards", so.... which "standards" are you trying to imply?

[simmorya]

I cant even edit my own posts on this. I have to create a new post.

I wish they went for the Windows Live look with the toolbars etc. That would look much better than the Vista Home basic theme.

[profets]

I get scrambled images on most websites. In both IE8 and IE7 mode. The performance is crap. The UI is discusting on Vista.

The list goes on. Im going back to IE7 until this RTM's. Worst beta of IE iv seen since IE4.0 imo.

i dunno man, i thought beta 1 of ie7 was pretty brutal too

[daniel_rh]

Is not bad, I like what I see by now... Live Hotmail doesn't work for me with IE8 but I can get it work with Emulate IE7 button

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Remember, this release is targetted at web developers. There are a few other nice new user-facing features (crash recovery, and not having to open new windows for Protected Mode IE to be on/off for different tabs, etc), but this is far from the complete IE 8 experience.

[Titoist]

Any screenshots of the whole browser?

[DigitalE]

Seems no different than IE7.

Any screenshots of the whole browser?

[Flipshot]

Can anyone get the Facebook WebSlice to work. I click the link and it just takes me to the facebook homepage which has a message at the top telling I'm using Internet Explorer 6 and facebook works better in 7. I don't know why it thinks I'm using version 6 when I have version 8 installed.

[BajiRav]

So far liking it... :)

[Gav86]

I cant beleive they went for the "Windows Vista Home Basic" theme. Text input seems delayed to me. I dont like it at all.

It's a technology beta (and a beta 1 at that). It is basically in a basic shell GUI. The purpose of it is to test rendering.

[George P Global Moderator]

Ok, so I went to a few sites in IE8 mode and for the most part they all worked right except my Live personal page had problems. I'm back in IE7 mode for now, and I know this is just the start.

A few things that i've noted so far, and this is only about 10-15mins into using it. Performance is the same as IE7 is for me (XP SP2 btw), on this old as heck PC of mine. I like how they split the tabs into their own process to get the crash recovery going finally BUT memory usage in this beta is up big over IE7. This could just be due to any debug bits in this beta that are working though so I'll wait and see how Beta 2 and the RCs look later on, no biggy for now though I don't mind.

The biggest problem I have with it right now, they seem to have gotten rid of the "Open these tabs the next time IE starts" Option when closing IE8 with tabs open. Now it justs asks you to either close all of them or just the one you're on? Maybe i'm not understanding this right but if I just close the one i'm on does that mean the others will open up next time? I'll have to text this out heh.

That's about it for now, I haven't tried to d/l anything to see if they made any changes to the way IE downloads files but I don't expect them to have at this point.

Nope, seems the tabs option to open again when you start IE the next time is now gone from this beta 1 build. That sucks because I used that option alot with IE7.

Anyone know why or how I can get tabs to open like before?

[simmorya]

ahh i had the Favourites bar turned on. made it look like crap.

is anyone else experiencing problems with neowin now?

[tiagosilva29]

:rofl:

[George P Global Moderator]

I turned the Favorites bar off, so it's back to looking like IE7 did for me.

[SVG Veteran]

anyone else having problems scrolling on certain blogs? it goes to the top half-way thru the page

[Evolution]

Well it's not displaying everything properly on a few forums :/ Since it's beta 1, I was expecting it to be slow... It does show promise though.

[SVG Veteran]

i love the crisp rendering though its broken on certain sites

[George P Global Moderator]

anyone else having problems scrolling on certain blogs? it goes to the top half-way thru the page

I had that problem on some blogs also, but now in IE7 mode it's gone. You'll have to use the scroll bar to go down in IE8 mode so it doesn't jump back up from the looks of it.

[xendrome]

There aren't any "standards", so.... which "standards" are you trying to imply?

Ever hear of web-programming standards?