Microsoft have released the first Beta of their next generation browser, Internet Explorer 8, available to download here. At a presentation at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, after demoing Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft surprised it’s audience by announcing that the first beta was going to be available to download straight away.
According to Microsoft, some of the key goals for Internet Explorer include complete, full CSS 2.1 support; improved scripting performance; support for HTML 5; built-in developer tools for scripting, CSS and layout debugging; “activities” and “web slices”, which are designed so that user’s can quickly see updates to their frequently checked web sites.
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March 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
IE8 is a double edged sword for me (so far). While it certainly fixes a majority of IEs bugs, there is alot it still doesn’t do right. There is a nice article about it here (http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-in-internet-explorer-8/). Although it still is an early beta, so lets hope they get around to fixing some of the issues.