After taking 6 years to move from version 6 to version 7, the IE team has offered the first IE8 beta barely 18 months after IE7's release.The most important stuff includes:
- Fixes to long-standing rendering bugs, including most notably the double margin bug and skittish CSS floats
- Support for generated content
- Support for more pseudo class (i.e. :after, :before and :focus) and support for the outline property
- Much improved development tools, including a built-in, souped-up version of the IE Developer Toolbar that rivals Firebug's feature set
- A much more standardized Document Object Model (DOM), which means you won't need to write IE-specific JavaScript to make IE8 sing and dance
- The introduction of CSS table-layout support allowing you to take some of the more robust layout qualities of tables (i.e. self-equalizing columns) and apply them directly to clean, sensible markup.
For sample installation and screenshoot you can view here
Archived News:
- Five things you'll love (or hate) about IE8 (blogs.computerworld.com)
- Hands-on With Microsoft's IE8 Beta (washingtonpost.com)
- Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta (pcmag.com)
- IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode (arstechnica.com)
- The Internet Explorer 8 beta toolbar (istartedsomething.com)
Read More after jump
- Microsoft promises IE8 beta in June (vnunet.com)
- Confirmation: Internet Explorer 8 beta testing has begun (betanews.com)
- Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Available on Connect (techtoday.110mb.com)
- Microsoft on IE8: we won't break the Web (itnews.com.au)
- Microsoft Prepares to Unveil IE8 Features At MIX08 (dailytech.com)
- Dean Hachamovitch to show IE8 at MIX Keynote (visitmix.com)
- Microsoft Stresses Backward Compatibility for IE8 (pcworld.com)
- Compatibility and IE8 (blogs.msdn.com)
- EC to investigate Internet Explorer (broadband-finder.co.uk)
- Internet Explorer 8 Passes the 'Acid2' Test (internetnews.com)
- IE 8 Beta 1 in First Half of 2008 (pcworld.com)
- Microsoft still short on details surrounding IE8 (betanews.com)
- Gates: Next IE to be IE8 (news.com)
- Is Microsoft Getting Ready to Let the IE8 Genie Out of the Bottle? (news.softpedia.com)
- Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Web developers impatient for Internet Explorer news (seattlepi.nwsource.com)
- Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009? (news.softpedia.com)
- Microsoft's Chris Wilson confirms all-new layout engine in IE.Next (sitepoint.com)
- Internet Explorer 8.0: The silence is deafening (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE8 trial coming soon (pcplus.co.uk)
- CompTIA: IE voted 'most influential' tech product (news.com.com)
- Windows Vienna & IE 8 features Leaked (msinsider.blogspot.com)
- Next version of Windows: Call it 7 (news.com.com)
- Firefox now a serious threat to IE in Europe (osdir.com)
- Fake IE8 Alpha screenshots appear on the Web (it-newz.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 9 to ship with Windows 7? (techtheblog.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 Beta to begin later this year (thehotfix.net)
- Preparing your site for IE.next (webdevout.net)
- Firefox more likely to be fully patched than IE (computerworld.com.au)
- IE7 Interest: Flat (pcworld.com)
- Are IE8 and Web Standards Compatibility Compatible? (itbusinessedge.com)
- Microsoft hints at general plan for IE 8 (news.com.com)
- Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8 (arstechnica.com)
- 'IE8 compatible' - the cure for web standards headache? (theregister.co.uk)
- What's next for Internet Explorer? Microsoft opens up (a little) (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Microsoft's latest spin on Web apps (news.com.com)
- IE8 details to be unveiled next week (tech.co.uk)
- What to Expect from IE at MIX07 (blogs.msdn.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 and the semantic web (technextblog.blogspot.com)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 Is Taking Shape (ouredutainment.blogspot.com)
- Worm poses as Internet Explorer 7 beta download (itwire.com.au)
- Microsoft, Canvas, and the WHATWG (ajaxian.com)
- Microsoft releases "Deepfish" browser for Windows Mobile (engadget.com)
- Firefox more popular than IE in some European countries (xitimonitor.com)
- The first new feature of Internet Explorer 8? (apcmag.com)
- Microsoft responds to DOT ban on Vista, IE7, Office (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE7, Vista and Office 2007 banned by U.S. DOT (informationweek.com)
- IE loses ground in US; holds its ground worldwide (arstechnica.com)
- Internet Explorer market share now below 80% (computerweekly.com)
- Talking with Microsoft about IE.next (webstandards.org)
- Internet Explorer 8.0 Available for Download on P2P? (news.softpedia.com)
- Microsoft starts gathering IE 8 input (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE8: What Do You Want To See? (windowsconnected.com)
- Microsoft Is Already Running Internet Explorer 8.0 (news.softpedia.com)
- Is Internet Explorer 8 in the works? (arstechnica.com)
- Next versions of IE and Firefox taking shape (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer 8 somewhere in MIX07? (lorgor.net)
- Internet Explorer To Flag Verified 'Safe' Sites (entmag.com)
- 10 must haves in IE Next (456bereastreet.com)
- The History of Internet Explorer (microsoft.com)
- Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8 (itwire.com.au)
- Vista Boosts IE 7 Security Features (browsersecuritynews.com)
- Ideas for IE8 (channel9.msdn.com)
- IE.next to support CSS3 colours? (css3.info)
- Microsoft slowly begins IE 7 auto-upgrade (infoworld.com)
- What comes after IE 7? (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Internet Explorer to stomp pop-ups (news.com.com)
- You can improve IE.next (webstandards.org)
- Microsoft is already working on Internet Explorer 8 (dmxzone.com)
- "IE8.0 Alpha" screenshots (activewin.com)
- IE 8.0 will support microformats (factoryjoe.com)
- Up next: IE 8.0 (blogs.zdnet.com)
- IE 7 Is AJAX-Ready, MS working on IE Next (eweek.com)
- IE8 out on 8/8/8? (navegadores.org)
- MS sharing some hints about IE 8.0, aka IE Next (blogs.zdnet.com)
- Things IE7 didn't fixed (forevergeek.com)
