Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

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bbfc_uk

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Wow, very impressive! Loads up very quickly on my Vista laptop, faster than IE7 even!!

Was hoping for more of a change to the UI but it doesn't look too bad now that its been tweaked.

InPrivate Browsing is a fantastic feature!

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Roger H. Veteran

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could someone verify this page: http://www.video-palace.com/

it's a standard compliant site I made, loads perfect in opera, firefox and ie7. IE8 shows a blank page

For me that site still is saying please wait. It hsan't loaded yet and therefore still showing a blank screen.

EDIT - i hit the compatability icon and it loaded instantly. When i have it in IE8 mode though it doesn't load at all.

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XerXis

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For me that site still is saying please wait. It hsan't loaded yet and therefore still showing a blank screen.

EDIT - i hit the compatability icon and it loaded instantly. When i have it in IE8 mode though it doesn't load at all.

yeah, now i have to find out why, hopefully it's a bug in ie8 and not in my code (fingers crossed)

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XerXis

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Oh well it fails the new acid test miserably! Try for yourself here...

What a shock! :whistle:

who cares, they never aimed for css 3 compability in this release, neither are they ready to support canvas. It passes acid 2 with flying flags and aims for full css 2.1 compability. That's all i care about.

The developer features are great, full javascript debugging, dom tree, css tree, rulers, color picker and so on

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NEVER85

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WOW, so many new features!!! i'm sure firefox users will say they already have all this stuff but still a HUGE step forward.

Don't group us all together. ;) I'm a die-hard Firefox user but I'm typing this inside of IE8 Beta 2 right now and I must say there are vast improvements over Beta 1 and even IE7. It's good to see Microsoft improving IE as much as they are! I'll likely keep Beta 2 installed as my secondary browser over IE7.

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Menge

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i like how they put the page compatibility button right on the address bar - under the USER's control. hopefully they'll default to the most strict mode and then when the user presses the button, go back some versions.

seems this IE version might be a good one, after all :)

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andy_rose

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Ok, let me get this right.

I am on vista 64 bit..downloaded the 64-bit version.

If I install this one, will it just update the 64 bit version of IE, or will both versions be updated??(cause in vista 64 you have the choice to run the 32 bit or the 64 bit. And I tend to choose the 32 bit version since 64 bit dont support flash just yet.)

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jmc777

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Importing bookmarks from other browsers seems to be a bit flaky. When I tried it, some bookmarks were imported and others weren't. With that said, this is probably the first version of IE I've used and thought "Hmmm....this is quite nice!". :D

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