Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Now Available
This morning at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IE team made eight announcements about IE8. The most interesting for many people is that a developer beta is now available. Download it here.
The rest of our talks and demos focused on seven other areas that appeal to developers:
Our goal is to deliver complete, full CSS 2.1 support in the final IE8 product. IE8 Beta 1 for developers delivers better interoperability with other major browsers, addressing major pain points (e.g. floats and margins) from previous IE releases. We’re not finished – there’s much more to come in Beta 2.
We’ve contributed over 700 test cases to the W3C CSS working group because we think a comprehensive certification test suite for CSS is important for true interoperability and we support the W3C’s effort to deliver such a suite. The CSS spec is good, but contains many ambiguities, and a test suite will help resolve them and benefit web developers and designers. We’re making these available under the BSD License, which is the license that the W3C CSS working group has proposed using for the rest of its test cases. Of course, we will contribute more tests en route to a full test suite, and welcome your feedback on the tests using the W3C's CSS test suite mailing list.
We’ve delivered better scripting performance because we heard from developers that they needed it given how heavily the latest rich web experiences rely on script.
We’ve started delivering support for HTML5 because we understand that developers want to start delivering richer web experiences, with great interoperability, as soon as possible.
We’ve delivered the first installment of great, built-in developer tools. We understand that script, CSS, and layout debugging are crucial today. Again, we’re not finished here – there’s more to come.
We’ve delivered a better way for web services to integrate into the user’s workflow with “Activities.” For example, a user can select text on a web page and map it, blog it, look for it, or just act on it without having to copy it, open a new tab, navigate to another site, and paste. We made the OpenService Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
We’ve delivered a better way for web services to enable their users to keep an eye on interesting parts of a webpage within the browser with “WebSlices.”Developers can make parts of their pages “subscribable” with just a little mark-up, and users can easily subscribe and keep an eye on information (like their social network, an auction, or a sports score) within the browser, even when users are not at the developer’s site. We’ve made the WebSlice Format specification available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise and is dedicating copyright in the specification to the public domain using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.
The list above is the very short version of what’s in IE8 and does not represent everything that’s in the final product. There’s a lot more. This list details specific investments for developers. As with previous releases, members of the IE team will post to this blog in detail over the coming days, weeks and months. In the meantime, you can find a lot more information at the revamped IE Development Center: https://msdn.microsoft.com/ie.
While anyone can download it, this is a developer beta. We released it at MIX for a good reason: great web experiences start with web developers, and we want to engage developers first. We believe that to build a better browser for the people who use the web, we need to build a better browser for the people who make the web. Non-developers are welcome to try it, but they’ll be more interested in Beta 2.
One theme I hope developers notice here is interoperability. The team understands how big an impact differences between browsers (and previous versions of IE in particular) have had on developers in terms of wasted time, frustration, and (in some cases) limiting the experience that they deliver to users. We want to deliver a big step forward in real-world interoperability for developers with IE8, and standards are at the core of our approach. This topic deserves a lot more than just this paragraph; expect more soon.
The beta is available today for Windows Vista (“Gold” and SP1), Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP2 and SP3, both in 32- and 64-bit versions. We will release the developer beta in German, and Simplified Chinese shortly. We’re interested in reading your feedback in the beta newsgroup and developer forums.
Please try it out – the browser itself, the developer tools, writing an Activity, marking part of your page as a WebSlice – and let us know what you think.
Thank you,
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager
Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Fails Acid2. I know it passed in December 2007. But I tried it today, and it Failed <a href="http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8821/epicfailonie8na6.png"><img">http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8821/epicfailonie8na6.png"><img src="http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8821/epicfailonie8na6.png" alt="IE8 Epic Fail" /></a>Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Yep, its failing here too. ( http://pg55kw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUDkAicOt_vyC5sKeiTisk6iDLVzIz06FOco6V23vED02jeElqnnRvSyAMZ5Kn3ji4l6uCP4x96Mk88_Bx4C1XA/iAcid2.PNG ) And does the Activity pop-up icon not show in the XP version?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
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March 05, 2008
Ok I just tried IE8 Beta on one of my sites.. The site works 100% fine and is really fast (javascript wise) on Safari, FF 2 and 3 (beta) and IE7.. On IE8 - it's a complete dog - with my cpu spiking hard. Even in 'ie7 mode' the site doesnt' render like it did in IE7.. Uninstallilng until this beta comes along further, hopefully I can uninstall it ok :(Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Soum, the Activity popup doesn't show on IE8 standards mode pages. It works in IE7 stds mode and quirks. This is a known bug for beta 1.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Can this be installed STANDALONE? or does it wipe IE7 out (on XP)? thanks.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
"We’re interested in reading your feedback" yes indeed! and we are interested in submitting it! Sorry I missed the memo, WHERE IS THE PUBLIC BUG TRACKING? e.g. NOT a newsgroup or forum.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
dmose, hang in there. When you pushed the Emulate IE7 button, did you restart IE? Also, we haven't completed or optimized IE8 stds mode yet, so perf will be slower. You should see that IE7 stds mode is as fast or faster than in IE7.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Only one version of IE can be installed at a time. However, we have Virtual PC images with different versions of IE available for free here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
I've tried the beta, and I'm completely appalled. The ONLY improvements to CSS selectors appear to be :before, :after, and :lang() selectors, and NOT any of the double colon notation versions. SVG support is nonexistent. And to top it all off, Acid2 FAILS. Looks like someone gouged its eyes out. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/Artiki/acid2fails.pngAnonymous
March 05, 2008
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March 05, 2008
The "opacity" CSS property is not working on IE 8 beta 1. Tested on Windows XP. The opacity filter does not work either: Here's a test case: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/opacity.htmlAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Dear IE Team, proper public bug tracking please ala Bugzilla or whatever you all prefer to use.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
You can try the Acid2 test here http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html#top (although their site seems to be down right now.) The test doesn't work from the other domains you listed because the call for the eyes is cross domain; IE8 currently doesn't trust that cross domain call. We're working through whether we can change that for beta 2 safely.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
So where's the standalone install instructions??Anonymous
March 05, 2008
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March 05, 2008
Tony, No I didnt restart the browser when I clicked the emulation button - should have tried. I uninstalled it because I need IE7 on my computer for development right now. What I can tell is its a step in the right direction however maybe the beta is actually an alpha? (given the rush to release for MIX it's understandable) Nevertheless, I have confidence you guys will deliver a solid browser.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
It will not install. Says wrong service pack. Strange, the requrements section says it will work with Vista or Vista SP1. So why doesn't it install?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
dmose, try the VPC I pointed to earlier then. Thanks!Anonymous
March 05, 2008
If a browser restart is needed to switch between rendering modes, then how could the opt-in system have possibly worked?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Any official bug reporting tool around? Thanks.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
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March 05, 2008
Gyrobo, The restart is to make sure that everything is in sync -- ua string, rendering mode, and all visible pages. IE can switch page mode on the fly via the meta tag.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
IE8 is performing excellently so far, no issues to speak of- though I have to say I'm a bit surprised the Live Search guys didn't test the Live.com homepage in IE8 before Beta 1 was released.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
We just posted info on bug tracking, feedback, etc. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/05/ie8-beta-feedback.aspxAnonymous
March 05, 2008
"Only one version of IE can be installed at a time." What do you expect from Microsoft? Non-viruslike programs? Forget about it!Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Obvious question, and I'll admit I didn't read up on the webslices thing, but what's wrong with using existing microformats standards? It sounds like you reinvented a separate distinct format for achieving the exact same thing that microformats have done for a couple of years now. Is that how far you were willing to take those promises of interoperability? Or am I missing something obvious :)Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Jalf, we'll blog more about that later, but the current microformat didn't have all of the information we needed to deliver the experience we wanted. We are contributing our spec back to the public domain under the CC-PD license so others can use it though.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
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March 05, 2008
Http://StarTrek-Games.com Renders fine in:
![http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8821/epicfailonie8na6.png"](http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/8821/epicfailonie8na6.png"){kind=link}
- Opera
- Firefox 2
- Safari
- IE 7 Renders badly in:
- IE 8 So is IE8 even more standards complient then the others or ?
Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Chess, I'm not sure about that site specifically, but as we've mentioned, we're not yet done with our CSS 2.1 implementation, so there are features missing(not to mention bugs) that may cause sites to not draw correctly. Beta 1... :)Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Initial Feedback:
- Favorites moved out of the tab row! (about time!)
- Command bar still in the Tab row (pls change)
- Refresh/Stop still on the wrong side of the address bar
- Zooming still major-ly messed up.
Anonymous
March 05, 2008
After having read "With all the great styling and layout changes we’re working on in our new engine for IE8 to be much more standards compliant, [...]" in "Compatibility and IE8", I was anxious to see if the main reason for so many, many problems in the past would have finally been taken care off. The dreadful "hasLayout" property. Unfortunately, it's still present in the IE8 beta. Why call it a new engine if it still uses an appearantly fundamental architectural flaw, which has been with the Trident engine since it first saw daylight back in 1997? I'd really like to know how and if it's still being used in the layout engine of IE8.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Well, maybe I am doing something wrong, but http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html renders correctly. Tested on VirtualPC XP machine.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
just an idea. instead of the favorites button, display the text of the last selected tab. so if feeds was selected, the button would display "feeds", or it would display "history" if the history tab is selected.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Great! That's an important step.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
@P: "button tag value submit fixed?" Yes, in standards mode, we submit the value, not the innertext.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
I'm glad to hear about Microsoft's efforts on IE8, and I'm glad to hear it coming so soon on the heels of IE7. I'm a FireFox user myself, but until FF gets a better hold on the marker share for browsers, our only hope as developers is that the IE team does its level best to fix bugs and become standards compliant. I'm encouraged, by this blog entry, but still think I'll wait until beta 2 to give the thing a go. I would love to see less tight integration with the OS (read: I want to run this as a stand alone and not have to fiddle with virtual machines to run various versions of the program). I also want to see IE8 handle z-index correctly when it comes to stacking divs on top of selects and such. Thanks for your efforts. Let's hope IE8 is everything we want and more.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
- I didn't expect this so soon!
- Great that you made it for XP too! Keep up the good work.
Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Does IE8 handle application/xhtml+xml type correctly?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
@John C Bachandouris IE8 is supported on Vista and Vista SP1 final version only. The reason you are not able to install IE8 on your machine is most likely because you are running an earlier version of Vista SP1. Please upgrade your machine to Vista SP1 version 18000. Thanks, JaneAnonymous
March 05, 2008
With MIX, and meeting the announced MVC roadmap , the new versions of AS.NET Extensions are now publiclyAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Thanks for the Beta. After review, there are some serious CSS issues that I am sure will get resolved. The speed/performance issue will get resolved from what you have stated. No support for application/xhtml+xml MIME content type is a disappointment. Have notified various staff to be sure to add the Meta equivalent tag to IE7 engine and get it done, today. While the likelihood of a vendor/customer logging onto a client's Intranet is remote using IE8 Beta, it is still a possibility. Perhaps, the default rendering should have been IE7 until the final Beta of IE8. All said and done, I am sure you will get the issues resolved as best you can.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Installed the first Internet Explorer 8 beta. Some thoughts: I’m impressed that it can import settings from Firefox & Safari. It detected Firefox extensions and even offered to look up similar add-ons. Unfortunately it was a big long searc..Anonymous
March 05, 2008
@Marhall aria-* properties are new properties that allow the author to provide accessibility information. More info at http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.phpAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Thank you, got it installed and checking it out now. Thanks for a way to launch a whole folder from the links bar into a set of tabs, I appreciate that suggestion getting in! I also appreicate how it didn't scramble the order of my links toolbar. Whoever did the extra work on that one - THANK YOU!!!!Anonymous
March 05, 2008
You commented on parts of HTML5 being supported. Mind to share what you've begun work on? Feature suggestion: allow some way for a domain to mark an element node as cacheable. If your site's navigation/header/footer rarely change it would be nice for the browser to cache those elements between pages, that way only your content area(s) need to be rendered on each page load. Only "bug" I saw was on a client's site using our Web builder application the top left graphic on http://www.sensiblemoves.com was getting being pushed down by the inner div (I recognize that it's bad HTML, but that part's centering is done by the client editing it in Design Mode). I had to give it a width of 100% and make it an inline-block to avoid a 10px gap that IE7 nor Firefox2 had. I couldn't figure out where these 10px were coming from via the new Developer bar. I LOVE the ability to finally edit attributes inline in IE. THANK YOU.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Just wondering, is there a 64 bit version of IE8 like there is for IE7? Not that it really makes any difference except added incompatibility with plugins in the 64 bit version. I'll probably wait on this release of IE8, but nice work passing Acid2!Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Wow, you guys must need skin like rhinos, I guess it's hard to please everyone when you're part of the evil empire(tm). I'm glad you went with standards mode by default and you're making the right noises about standards support. I've had a brief play with the beta and at first blush my last standards-based site is all good. The beta seems solid and the developer tools are a big improvement. Well done.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
From http://weblogs.asp.net/meligy/archive/2008/03/06/asp-net-3-5-extensions-mvc-expression-studio-...Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Well done guys, I didn't expect a beta release so soon!!! Disregard the unsatisfiable posters and negative comments; people who created a personality out of bashing Microsoft suddenly find themselves with much less character - you did a great job, I look forward to the future releases :)Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Am sure that you will run across this if you already haven't. Off-screen hidden text via CSS isn't fully supported, e.g. .hide{position:absolute; height:.1em; left:-999em; overflow:hidden; width:.1em} Text is hidden but white space remains.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
No png support at all. Looks to me not all CSS is supported correctly. However i am looking forward to the final release and hopefully it will be friendly to us true web standards people.Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Thanks for the beta A quick test shows it working well under XP SP2. Funny how many sites break under the new standards mode (like everything on www.msn.com!). I see the Adobe SVG viewer still works which is nice until ...... ?? BruceAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Microsoft hat sich vor der Veröffentlichung einer Beta-Version des kommenden Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) nun doch (einigermaßen überraschend) dazu entschlossen, die ggü. IE6 und IE7 standardkompatiblere Darstellung von Webinhalten standardmäßig zu verwendeAnonymous
March 05, 2008
@doug -- tfswshx.dll is not part of Windows or IE... This page might help you out: http://www.file.net/process/tfswshx.dll.htmlAnonymous
March 05, 2008
what about application/xhtml+xml?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Do you know what I like the most about IE? It is not installed on my Mac :)Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Ya está disponible para su descarga pública la primera beta de Internet Explorer 8. Los detalles pueden leerse en el blog del equipo de desarrollo. Otra crónica es la que hace Percy Cabello en MozillaLinks: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/03/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-first-impressions/Anonymous
March 05, 2008
don't have 'hasLayout'? display:inline-block is different from safari?Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Cool to see the first beta that soon. Too bad about the lack of support for new CSS 3 properties, SVG and XHTML, though. That may change later, or not... I wish an announcement was made about such things, what's planned and what isn't. At least CSS 2.1 compliance is planned, which is something already... I have a couple of questions on my mind, but will only ask the most important ones:
- Is the IE7 rendering exactly the same as in IE7, currently, or are there differences? I'm asking because I still need to test sites in IE7, and was wondering if I could do that with this beta...
- Is IE6 rendering mode supported at all?
Anonymous
March 05, 2008
Diese Woche findet die grösste Web Konferenz von Microsoft statt. Folgende Ankündigungen sindAnonymous
March 05, 2008
Diese Woche findet die grösste Web Konferenz von Microsoft statt. Folgende Ankündigungen sind wichtigAnonymous
March 05, 2008
I'm still waiting to test it... the download takes so long... why not standalone? The vpc solution is really a big problem! Help us!Anonymous
March 05, 2008
D�cid�ment, on n'en finit pas de parler d'Internet Explorer 8 ! Comme �voqu� sur ce billet, la premi�re b�ta de la version 8 est disponible. Le blog de MSDN l'annonce dans un billet. Elle est t�l�chargeable sur le site de Microsoft.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
Having spent half a dozen hours debugging this http://trac.wymeditor.org/trac/ticket/98 issue this week, and being a huge Firefox supporter, I really have every right to hate Microsoft and IE right now. However ... I got home from work and found IE8b1 available. I installed it and tested a few of my sites ... and all I really want to say is THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS!Anonymous
March 06, 2008
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March 06, 2008
Good but the notepad to edit source and properities are always so bad!!! please, doing a good job for thisAnonymous
March 06, 2008
I've been using IE7...installed IE8 last night. It immediately crashes every time I attempt to start the browser. It doesn't even get to the point of displaying home page. I've tried reinstalling a few times as well. Any suggestions?Anonymous
March 06, 2008
IE8 ROCKS! Still hate the "javascript error do you wish to debug dialog" comming up all the time when i am not interested in developing at that moment. Development tools also look great. Hope you end IE6 support entirely as soon as IE8 goes RTWAnonymous
March 06, 2008
Gestern hat das IE-Entwicklerteam auf der zur Zeit in Las Vegas stattfindenen Konferenz MIX08 die erste Beta des Internet Explorer 8 ver�ffentlicht. Einen �berblick �ber die neuen Funktionen und �nderungen gibt das Internet Explorer 8 Readiness ToolkitAnonymous
March 06, 2008
James, try to start IE without any addons. If it loads just fine then one of your addons is causing the issue.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
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March 06, 2008
Does Microsoft have any documentation about GPO settings that will be available for IE8? GPO information would help us plan for IE8 implementation at our organinzation that has over 110,000 desktop and laptop computers. ThanksAnonymous
March 06, 2008
I like IE 8 interface. Clean :). Same problem like Sagi Arsyad and it happen on my website too. IE8 autoscroll it self when reaching a "text input". IE 8 Wrecking my design which it had same appereance in IE 7, FF, and Opera. Maybe I should refine it. Slow repaint problem at the toolbar in my laptop. Great Release, I hope many bug will be fixed in future release. I love this browser :)Anonymous
March 06, 2008
The activities are fine but can they be personnalized ? I mainly use blogger for my blog posts.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 yesterday. There are lots of articles on the web discussing the changes they have made, so I won't repeat any of the general comments. I will...Anonymous
March 06, 2008
@Sagi / @DItyo Nurasto: Thanks. The scrolling issue is a known bug in Standards mode. @Matt: PNG is fully supported and has been since IE7. @Ibrahim: Yes, when installed on a 64 bit OS, IE8 has both 32bit and 64bit versions available. @Stifu: IE6 Quirks mode remains IE8's Quirks mode. IE6 "strict" mode was replaced by IE7 "strict" mode and is no longer available. When you opt into IE7 Strict mode via the X-UA-Compatible Meta-tag or Header, it should behave identically in IE7 and IE8, although you must ensure that your conditional comments and window.navigator.userAgent checks account for IE8.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
I know it isn't in this version but what are the plans to support XSLT 2.0 in future versions of IE ? http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/ and the affering standards ? (xpath 2.0) http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/ Thanks.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
This menu makes all DOM calls to create and display menus. It is completely broken by the IE 8 beta. http://xmlmenu.comAnonymous
March 06, 2008
What HTML5 tags and attributes do you support? I'd like to put them in Wikipedia.Anonymous
March 06, 2008
EricLaw: thanks for answering. Yeah, I meant IE6 "strict" mode, of course. As for IE7 strict mode, I just thought maybe the fact IE8 is a beta may make it behave unexpectedly, making it an imperfect reference for IE7 tests. From what you're saying, it sounds like the IE7 mode should be totally unaffected by the IE8 core, which is good. However, I don't agree with you on the PNG point. Yes, Matt is obviously wrong when he says there is "no png support at all", yet PNG is not "fully supported" either, as gamma correction is still handled incorrectly (makes images darker than they should be). See: http://www.easy-reader.net/archives/2006/02/18/png-color-oddities-in-ie/Anonymous
March 06, 2008
@Tony Chor: Thanks for the link to VPC images. I've misplaced my "qualifying media" and haven't been able to create an image of my own using an XP upgrade disk. Does the IE team intend to keep providing new VPC images as old ones expire?Anonymous
March 06, 2008
How soon can we expect a VitrualPC image to test with in the same way we currently test IE6 and IE7?Anonymous
March 06, 2008
As Dean mentioned yesterday in his post announcing the availability of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1Anonymous
March 06, 2008
As Dean mentioned yesterday in his post announcing the availability of the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1Anonymous
March 06, 2008
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March 06, 2008
@stifu: I'm not convinced that there is any agreement on this point. There are some good articles on this topic: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/ "Of the various PNG-supporting browsers, Safari on Mac OS X prior to 10.4 is the most prominent problem: It applies a gamma change to unlabeled PNGs. This means that even unlabeled PNGs are no good those who want consistent colors between images and CSS in Safari on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.2" More here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GammaCorrectionAndColorCorrectionPNGIsStillTooHard.aspxAnonymous
March 06, 2008
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March 06, 2008
IE Tem announced Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for developers and designers. Release notes can be downloadedAnonymous
March 06, 2008
any hopes for a win2k version -- for those of us who just want to test the thing -without- shelling out more $$ (that we dont have) for a new version of windows?Anonymous
March 06, 2008
Mephitus-- No way they're doing a Win2k version; Win2k is pretty much out of support. They didn't release IE7 for Win2k for that reason. You can probably just install the Virtual PC software and run IE8 on that?Anonymous
March 07, 2008
A warning message appear when a zip archive is righ clicked since I've ie8 beta on my computer. The message is: "The page has an unspecified potentiel security risk. Would you like to continue?" I'm running Vista Home Premium and my software for extracting or zipping files is Winrar. Great jobAnonymous
March 07, 2008
Congrats on the release, fantastic for a beta. Fixed tons of float/margin bugs. Really a massive improvement over ie7. A few quick observations, I too noticed that css opacity is not working, since the 'filter' properties are gone(as they should be) dynamic fade-in's etc don't work... Big problem for "web 2.0" sites. Will you be supporting standard CSS opacity in future releases?Anonymous
March 07, 2008
I just don't understand why IE standalone is not a standard feature. Wouldn't it help corporates to slowly upgrade to IE8? (Although I think ideally they would upgrade to IE8, and run standalone IE6 for their legacy sites - I guess standalone IE6 would not be doable). And obviously developers want standalone IE8...Anonymous
March 07, 2008
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March 07, 2008
I have installed internet explorer 8 beta 1 successfully but i m unable to uninstall it from add remove programs as there is no remove button.Anonymous
March 08, 2008
It has been a busy week this week. I arrived in Las Vegas on Sunday and have been really enjoying meetingAnonymous
March 08, 2008
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March 09, 2008
When IEW8 Beta 1 is installed, the webbrowser control of .NET 2.0 Framawork exposes the HTTP User Agent string "MSIE 7.0" and shows all the known rendering bugs that IE7 has, so it seems that the new IE8 rendering engine is not at all used in Dot NET. Is there a workaround or is this the intended behaviour?Anonymous
March 09, 2008
Hi All, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is a developer preview for web designers and developers to help prepareAnonymous
March 09, 2008
Hi All, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is a developer preview for web designers and developers to help prepareAnonymous
March 10, 2008
I can't open “live mail” at IE8... watarrellAnonymous
March 11, 2008
I have one question for you, Mr. Hachamovitch... Where do we get the "eight" shirt?Anonymous
March 12, 2008
IM RUNNING VISTA ULTIMATE X64 AND I DOWNLOADED IE8 BETA 1 AND DUDE ITS BEEN GOOD SO FAR THE IE8 IS FASTER AND IT HAS NOT CRASHIED YET DONT GIVE WRONG IT HAS BEEN A LITTLE SUBBORN BUT YOU NEED TO BE CALM AND DONT GET TO HEATED BUT IT DOES HAVE ITS BUGS. SO TO THOSE THAT HAVE IE8 JUST BE PAITENT AND DONT GET ANGRY REMEMBER ITS A BETA YOU WILL HAVE LOTS OF ISSUES!!!!!!!!Anonymous
March 12, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1: First ImpressionsAnonymous
March 13, 2008
With apologies to anyone who's already read this on my Webwatch e-mail list, I wanted to mention that beta 1 of Internet Explorer 8 is available. This is the product I work on at Microsoft so it is always nice when something I work on is available publicly.Anonymous
March 14, 2008
I have a very stupid question - how to report a support ticket to IE team? The matter is the next: try to create a next HTML page: <html> <body> <div CONTENTEDITABLE="true"><a style="DISPLAY: block" href="http://google.com">google</a></div> </body> </html> then place cursor right after google link and press Enter. IE just crashes.... I need a link to some support ticket (if I only knew how to create it!) for our customer, who is complaining about that. Please, could anybody help me? Thanks in advance.Anonymous
March 15, 2008
Ehkki IEBlog teatas juba möödunud nädala kolmapäeval, et IE8 esimene beta on väljas, polnud mul mahti sellega enne tänast tegeleda. Põhjuseks CeBIT 2008 ja sinna järgi kevadiste projektidega alustamine. Internet Explorer 8 esimene beta on mõ...Anonymous
March 15, 2008
Is the cache overflow problem fixed?Anonymous
March 17, 2008
I had the same problem.. probably because I installed it on XP SP3 RC2. Digging through the Add/Remove entries in the registry, it would appear that it failed to set UninstallString. I was able to find the uninstaller in the hidden/encrypted folder c:WindowsIE8spuninst so if anyone else runs into these sort of problems, now you know what to do. Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:55 AM by Ramesh I have installed internet explorer 8 beta 1 successfully but i m unable to uninstall it from add remove programs as there is no remove button.Anonymous
March 17, 2008
I don't recall now, but I see there's also a NoRemove set to 1 under the IE7 entry.. if that's also the case with IE8.. that entry could be modified or removed and that could allow the Remove button to show.. but then agian, without the UninstallString it might be a functionless button.Anonymous
March 18, 2008
here's a link/method to the common method for making ie (just betas ?? - dunno) running standalone. (link is down: http://www.rockschtar.de/2006/02/10/ie7-standalone-installation/) method was:
- download ie package
- open and extract exe file to a folder
- delete "shlwapi.dll"
- create an empty text file called "IEXPLORE.exe.local" and save it in the ie path
- run iexplorer.exe worked for me with ie8 beta1. sideeffects:
- couldn't open local files (prompted with an tab error)
- menu's sort of partial dead comment: method worded on ie8 beta1; ie7 beta(1,2,3) &(rc1) partially->displaying issues, ie7 did not work
Anonymous
April 07, 2008
The IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of WindowsAnonymous
June 03, 2008
In addition to the features for developers we showed in IE8 Beta 1 , we’ve been working on great newAnonymous
June 06, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Coming in AugustAnonymous
June 07, 2008
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers Now AvailableAnonymous
August 20, 2008
noted yesterday that Microsoft only had 11 more days within which to deliver the more customer-focusedAnonymous
October 08, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Coming in August