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Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8)Beta 1 First Look - Installation and new Features
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06-03-2008
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Even before most of the Windows users switch to Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft unveiled the first Beta version of their next installment to the IE family, the Internet Explorer 8 ( Beta 1). I fierce competition in the web browser market from Mozilla Firefox and now from the Apple Safari should be a driving factor for this quick release.



New features

The IETeam blog claims that they are planning a number of enhancements in the all new IE 8, like full CSS 2.1 support, better scripting performance, support for HTML5, built-in developer tools, Automatic Crash Recovery, Improved Phishing Filter, Favorites Bar, “Activities” and “WebSlices”.

Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Activities

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.


An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user’s blog site with the selection already available in the edit field.
Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.
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WebSlices

WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.
Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website to get more information.

Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
A user can easily add a link to the Favorites bar by using the Add to Favorites button and selecting the Add to Favorites Bar option.


Automatic Crash Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.


See Automatic Crash Recovery white paper for more information.

Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the "Safety Filter."


The Safety Filter continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their information. Beyond this improved protection, the Safety Filter operates more quickly than ever before to ensure that users can browse both safely and quickly.


For IT administrators, new Group Policy options are available to remove the user-override option and fully block access to known unsafe sites.


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Re: Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8)Beta 1 First Look - Installation and new Features

What is the Acid3 score IE8 gets ?

http://acid3.acidtests.org/
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Just 17

It's rendering engine is a total waste. Try to open Adobe.com.
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I haven't had it installed

in terms of acid tests Firefox 3 beta 5 scores 66~67 which is quite good. expected that the final version should pass the acid3 test.
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lol, IE6 was Better then IE7 in downloads and browsing speed but not security , i think IE8 is going for the worst
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We can't just predict it. The IE core rendering engine is re-written from scratch for this version and this is just a Beta 1. So by the time MS release it it should be better.
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I am tired of this version and planning to revert back to IE7. Most of the sites are displaying very badly and urls from other apps are crashing IE in most cases. Better wait for a more stable Beta
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seee????????????
tht's wht i was talking abt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and dnt wait for a more stable beta.....
wait for a more instable one
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Yeap realy IE8 is going for the worst ....!
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IE is the most $6CK!ng browser of all time.. I would rather use Konqueror than using crap IE
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