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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Released (Updated) | |
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| Time: 14:14 EST/19:14 GMT | News Source: Neowin | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08. View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features |
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Displaying Comments 1 through 29 of 29 |
This is an archived static copy of ActiveWin.com. |
| #1 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 07:43:57 AM |
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Links are all dead.
TL |
| #2 By 116 (66.193.251.146) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 08:24:33 AM |
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Works for me...
And Saweeeet! IE8 is looking good! |
| #3 By 21705 (70.82.180.143) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 09:19:04 AM |
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Dead for me also.
I'm still running IE6, never installed IE7. Can I safely install IE8 beta 1 and uninstall if I want then use IE6 again? I think I remember in the early days of IE7 it was not possible to go back. Or I think I'm confused with WMP11. |
| #4 By 143 (74.129.194.180) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:29:53 AM |
| Looks like the download has been removed by Microsoft. |
| #5 By 2138 (81.182.47.104) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:41:25 AM |
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links are dead.
UPDATE: Go to the page on the original link, then select Download Center. Then do a search for "IE8". Well then you got the link to download. This post was edited by belto on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 at 12:59. |
| #6 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:54:36 AM |
| Links work here; nothing to download though. (-: |
| #7 By 24214 (170.63.96.108) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:04:37 AM |
| I would like one of the built-in activities to be "Copy IMG location URL". |
| #8 By 143 (74.129.194.180) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:14:58 AM |
| Doesn't IE7Pro add-on have most the IE8 extra features? |
| #9 By 10557 (199.229.1.111) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:51:55 PM |
| ie8b1 for vista _just_ posted |
| #10 By 25030 (12.159.165.115) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 01:02:52 PM |
| It's up for XP SP2 as well. |
| #11 By 2960 (72.196.195.185) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 03:53:33 PM |
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I'm not seeing THAT much of a difference.
Toolbars are still locked down, for one. I wanted to see that fixed. -Larry |
| #12 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 04:05:19 PM |
| TL: There is one difference, the Emulate IE7 button. Seems odd, but potentially useful. |
| #13 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 04:40:46 PM |
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I installed it on a Vista "Ultimate" 64 box; besides some issue in rendering web pages which was expected, two of the gadgets in the sidebar, specifically "Feed Headlines" and "Stocks", are now in purple color. Not a big deal, it is Beta 1. This post was edited by Fritzly on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 at 16:41. |
| #14 By 92283 (142.32.208.232) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 04:43:34 PM |
| Latch: IE8 sucks. Bring back IE7. It was perfect! |
| #15 By 64829 (68.1.178.61) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 05:45:01 PM |
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"Latch: IE8 sucks. Bring back IE7. It was perfect! "
NotParkerToo- In case you have not noticed but this is a beta 1 of IE8. At least give it a chance |
| #16 By 37047 (99.241.35.182) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 06:39:59 PM |
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Latch: IE8 has improved standards compliance, and renders in compliance mode by default! Way to go Microsoft! Good Job!
NotParkerToo: Latch is an asshat. Latch is wrong about everything and hates everything. Latch thinks Microsoft made good improvements in IE8. Therefore IE8 must suck. Bring back IE6! |
| #17 By 60455 (68.186.182.236) at Wednesday, March 05, 2008 11:55:33 PM |
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Pretty cool beans.
Find any address on any web page and then select one of the activities. This is really nice and I think that MS has something really good going on here. Shoot, highlight anything and select an activity. Try sending as an email, for example. I checked out the activities and slices videos and then the developer's tools clips. IE 8 is going to make the web a lot more fun to use and code for. Just my 2 cents. |
| #18 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 01:26:13 AM |
| the hilighting of the domain.com in the address bar is crazy simple but really is nice. |
| #19 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 09:37:19 AM |
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Urgent!!!!
Webslice needed for Activewin - it should show all threads and comments (sans Latch). |
| #20 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:29:36 AM |
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#19: If you were using FF, you could program the GreaseMonkey extension to remove anything from me. But what would be the point? You'd miss all of my various witty remarks.
IE8 looks nice enough. My company's site renders fine in it. My only concerns wit IE these days are the same old, same old -- how long before some ActiveX glitch gives up the keys to the kingdom (again), and the rate at which MS fixes exposed flaws. |
| #21 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:41:56 AM |
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Urgent!!!!
Need Webslice to alert me of Latch's "witty remarks" |
| #22 By 92283 (64.180.201.131) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:43:26 PM |
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#21 That would be the blankest page on the web. This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Thursday, March 06, 2008 at 12:43. |
| #23 By 2332 (66.92.78.241) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 03:43:38 PM |
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#20 - Latch- "My only concerns wit IE these days are the same old, same old -- how long before some ActiveX glitch gives up the keys to the kingdom (again), and the rate at which MS fixes exposed flaws."
Except that if you were running IE on Vista, you would be far safer than ANY other browser on the market. There hasn't been a SINGLE exploit for IE7 that has been able to get by protected mode. Not one. Zip. Zero. Do you care to count the number of serious exploits for your favorite browser? Firefox? Safari? Opera? So there ya go... if you really care about security, you would run IE7 on Vista. I've written about this extensively here: http://www.robertdowney.com/2007/12/safest-way-to-browse-web-firefox-vs.html http://www.robertdowney.com/2006/10/how-ie7-on-vista-will-make-firefox.html |
| #24 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 03:57:38 PM |
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#22: If I set GreaseMonkey to ignore all posts with 'This post was edited by...' then I'd never see another post from you again.
#23: I don't run Vista and doubt I ever will, so I will stick with FF, AdBlock and NoScript. I've never had a problem with it. IE7/8 might be the absolute best browser in the world, with the best security ever, but I'd still stay away from the years of crap we had to put up with from MS. |
| #26 By 60455 (68.186.182.236) at Thursday, March 06, 2008 04:39:40 PM |
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@23, 25. Great articles. Protected Mode has proven to be a veyr capable member of the integrity mechanism around not just IE 7/8, but any process that faces public, or other untrusted networks. There's even a brokering agent that stops processes outside and lower in priority than user space, that prevents escalation outside of PM.
The best part is that any developer, including those an FF and Mozilla, can make use of the new tools, which include securable objects (the model used by PM and related processes). The real question here is why FF and Mozilla aren't making use of them, because they could and they could make the web a safer place to visit. Thanks again for the great articles. They explain a lot and in ways that a lot of people will understand. |
| #27 By 81201 (79.19.52.242) at Friday, March 07, 2008 11:39:34 AM |
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With IE8 if a tab crashes, the browser and all other tabs will survive. This post was edited by suy on Friday, March 07, 2008 at 11:40. |
| #28 By 2138 (81.183.111.134) at Friday, March 07, 2008 12:31:59 PM |
| well after playing with this i had to unistall. too buggy and crash prone for me. i will wait till they get a more stable build out but for now back to ie7. |
| #29 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at Friday, March 07, 2008 02:02:54 PM |
| #28: As with all software running on different hardware with personalized settings IE8 is acting differently for each of us. I found it to be very bug free. In fact, what I earlier reported as a bug may in fact be poor web site design, which is fixable. I let emotion step on logic. I like IE8, even though I'm using Opera to compose this post. |
