IE8 Download Page Goes Live - New Features Revealed

[DavidT]

http://digg.com/software/IE8_Download_Page_Goes_Live_New_Features_Revealed

Digg It!

I can't wait to take IE8 for a run, it looks so much better!

 

[Rastalovich]

This like IE Pro v7.2.x beta ? Cos that`s only about a week old.

 

[DavidT]

Huh? There's no such thing as IE Pro 7.2... The latest version of IE is 7.0.

 

[JN]

That does look pretty good actually. Finally maybe MS are getting their act together. Now all they need to do is make the browser adhere to web standards, and we could have a winner!

 

[Rastalovich]

Huh? There's no such thing as IE Pro 7.2... The latest version of IE is 7.0.

ahem.

 

[SuB]

the download links are live *downloading 64 bit version now*

(just in case ya didn't realise)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

 

[equk]

you have a apple logo as your avatar, but you can't wait for IE8?

have Microsoft even attempted to run using W3C validation?

 

[nathan]

here's the current site available for "activities" > http://ie.microsoft.com/activities/en-en/Default.aspx

Isnt W3C validation to make sure the code is written in a certain syntax standard? Or do you mean, does IE display web standard code as it should?

Only thing i could find out about W3C standards, is that it supports W3C’s ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Application). What ever that is!

I know this is a simple feature, but being able to highlight some text on a webpage, right clicking and selecting search with google is nice.

Some nice developer tools too.

 

[equk]

Isnt W3C validation to make sure the code is written in a certain syntax standard? Or do you mean, does IE display web standard code as it should?

Yer that's what I mean

Currently IE seems really bad at displaying W3C compliant sites. So many bugs in the CSS handling etc almost as if it's running in quirks mode all of the time.

edit: maybe it doesn't have a quirks mode and a standards mode?

 

[FarFarAway]

Apparently it defaults to run in compliant mode but it will run in IE7 mode if a tag is used to set this display mode on this page

 

[nathan]

Click the Emulate IE7 ButtonThe Internet Explorer 8 Developer Beta is optimized for developing sites in standards mode.

Click the Emulate IE7 button in the command bar to browse the web like you did in Internet Explorer 7

looks like there trying to push the standards, which is all good.

 

[hamed_u139]

thank u for ever