IE8 Beta 1 Available
This post is a day late and a dollar short being that the internet spreads gossip faster than a fat lady with a cell phone, but I thought it was a good topic of discussion anyway. If you haven’t gotten it you can find it here. The download became available yesterday and I have been tooling around in it for the last couple of hours.
It seems pretty nice with a couple of new added features. However it hates my site which means more work for me. Creadiv.com crashes it consistently so if you have installed it make sure you are using the emulate IE7 to view creadiv.
The coolest new feature that I have found is called Activities. Microsoft has inserted a cool new tool the gives you a bevy of activities that you can perform by simply highlighting text on a page. For example if you wanted to translate this entire post into German simply highlight it and select the translate with windows live activity and there you go. A completely translated copy of my text.
But it doesn’t quite deliver on its promise of being standards compliant. The acid2 test is a standards test that will display a smiley face correctly if your browser is 100% standards compliant, and it doesn’t quite work. There is a definite improvement from IE7 which is Microsoft’s best and most standards compliant browser to date, so that is something.
If you have downloaded the beta and have had the opportunity to use it, let me know what you think. I am looking too hear what people have to say about it. I am a IE guy which is probably a saying that makes many of your buttholes pucker do to the new immense popularity of firefox and the intense hatrid of IE that has been forming. So give it to me. I look forward to seeing what you can tell me about it.
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