Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Haha yeah, that was scary for the developer utility with the css validation and such. I sure that Microsoft will keep their promise of following the web standards to make our lives easier as developers to also ensure that a website is viewed like it should be regardless of the browser, that's crucial in my mind.

I saw that a bunch of you had trouble uninstalling Beta 1 or installing Beta 2. Now I'm wondering if it was a mistake by the time Beta 3 or whatever's next comes out.

They still need to increase support for other standards, CSS isn't the only important one (proper DOM support would be nice).

And JS speed is improved at least, still much slower than Firefox though (Firefox is all I have to compare against)

[splicer707]

Menu Bar and Favorites Bar. Where is the Feed Bar?

I'd like my Feeds to be visible on a Bar of some sort and not hidden away in Favorites, please?

Or what if I want some of my Favorites displayed in a Favorites Bar?

Figured it out. RSS Feeds and Favorites can be added to the Favorites Bar - Wish it was simpler. But (Y) nice.

So far IE8 is still not as flexible with customization as I would like. IMO

WTF!! :rofl:

Crazy stuff :rofl:

Who tested this software, was it beta testers or Microsoft internal testing?

Same question for features & implementation. Expected more from Microsoft.

Edited August 28, 2008 by splicer707

[1nteresting]

Oh gosh, usually I'm happy about updates, but updates from Microsoft I dread. Especially INTERNET EXPLORER updates, as I'm a web designer.

[soumyasch]

How did Microsoft come up with 1440 minutes (feeds) 483840 minutes (web slices) as a refresh interval. It's nuts.

1440 minutes is 24 hours. Thats reasonable. But 483840 minutes? 22 Years? WTF

[splicer707]

Very cool. I have my RSS feeds just how I like them.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

It still doesn't scale fonts when the size is specified in pixels, when on earth are they going to fix that, people have been complaining about that since IE6

[EduardValencia]

I think this is a little glitch..........

[EduardValencia]

It still doesn't scale fonts when the size is specified in pixels, when on earth are they going to fix that, people have been complaining about that since IE6

True ,also i have some weird errors on facebook

[random_n]

Microsoft really need to get out of the Internet Browser business... seriously.

Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes:

[splicer707]

Just discovered the power of 'InPrivate Browsing' Goodbye Advertising.

So how long before Microsoft get's sued or cancels this feature?

[jbarcus81]

Just discovered the power of 'InPrivate Browsing' Goodbye Advertising.

So how long before Microsoft get's sued or cancels this feature?

Good question.. LoL.. but I must say this is quite an improvement from B1... Can't wait for more!!!

[Guest xiphi]

I'm VERY impressed with this. 'Bout time MS brought something worthwhile to the browser table. Now if IE8 would have a download manager, I would probably switch over.

[soumyasch]

I'm VERY impressed with this. 'Bout time MS brought something worthwhile to the browser table. Now if IE8 would have a download manager, I would probably switch over.

And a better bookmark manager. One that at least supports dual pane view and multi-selection.

[darkrats]

Downloaded and installed, and immediately went to the Lenovo website to get some information on a new computer, only to find the words are extremely small and unreadable! See attached image. Anyone experience this or know what's going on? Note: Even changing the font size doesn't change anything.

[Robbo]

Hmm I seem to have a problem but I can't seem to find any help on this.

If anyone could help I would be grateful.

When I right click on graphics the right-click menu is fine as you can see from this image

Yet when I right click on a blank area or not on an image I get no text at all

Thx for any help.

[revvo]

^ Hmmmmm, maybe it's a beta 2 bug?

[ahmz]

I can't get beta 2 to install so I had to re-install beta 1.

[revvo]

Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes:

All of this to prevent the past from being repeated again. They should have started working on IE7 a bit earlier, but they wont let Firefox grow to a market share anywhere near what Netscape had back in the day.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I can't see that happening, IE won the browser war by out-innovating Netscape (at a time where standards didn't matter), and the whole anti-trust thing.

But these days, IE is still really far behind, they can't start innovating until they catch up to other browsers (which are making leaps really fast)

[splicer707]

@ The_Decryptor

Maybe it's time Microsoft gave up on their browser and just donated money to Mozilla to badge Firefox as Microsoft's browser?

IMO Microsoft is becoming less relevant in the browser scene all the time.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I'm enjoying some of the new features of IE8. The CSS rendering has improved immensely, and I hope that they continue to work on it, bringing it at least up to compete with current browsers. It would be nice to have a built-in way to filter out undesirable content.

I also hope that the IE team releases updates to IE more frequently with incremental bugfix/minor feature updates (8.1, 8.2, 8.3...) while still working on major releases (9, 10, etc).

[jmc777]

Is using green/yellow/red for tab colours wise? Isn't there a chance people might mistake them for safe/uncertain/dangerous?

[zhangm Supervisor]

I'm pretty happy with the new address bar - I think it might actually one-up the new Location Bar on Firefox. Can Ctrl + L be remapped to just select the contents of the address bar instead of opening up that absurdly old dialog?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I can't see a point in the coloured tabs, I had every tab in one window green because I started a google search in one tab and re-used the tabs. I think it could be more useful if you could specify colours on a per domain basis (i.e. all google tabs are green, all MS tabs are yellow, etc.)

@ The_Decryptor

Maybe it's time Microsoft gave up on their browser and just donated money to Mozilla to badge Firefox as Microsoft's browser?

IMO Microsoft is becoming less relevant in the browser scene all the time.

I'd much rather see "Microsoft Internet Explorer: Powered by Presto" than a version of Firefox re-branded.

And MS is allergic to the GPL, so a closed source app would be a much better option for them.

Edit: And Opera being used as the base for a new version of IE would help their market share, and the web as a whole.

[(Spork)]

so i have to ask this if i install this and dont like it for what ever reason will i be able to uninstall it ? and go back to 7

im running vista sp1