Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 1
March 6, 2008 – 7:50 amMicrosoft has recently introduced Internet Explorer 8.0 at its Mix conference for Web developers. The company detailed the browser’s new features and offered the first beta of the browser to the public.
IE group’s general manager Dean Hachamovitch highlighted eight features in Microsoft’s latest browser: CSS 2.1 support, CSS Certification, performance, HTML 5 support, new developer tools, activities, Web slices and another unnamed feature.
IE8 also includes a made-over favorites bar that acts as a place to keep links to users’ top favorites within view at all times, much like a similar capability in Firefox. Microsoft is also adding automatic crash recovery, a feature that Firefox has, but extends it by recovering even single browser tabs that have experienced problems. The phishing filter in IE8 is also improved.
Microsoft explained that Internet Explorer 8.0 includes three rendering modes: one that is using the current web standards, a second one that reflects Microsoft’s implementation of Web standards at the time of the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006 and a third one based on rendering methods dating back to the early Web. By default, the first mode of rendering will be enabled in Internet Explorer.
According to the Microsoft download page, IE8 Beta 1 will be available in separate versions for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
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