Just announced … Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is a developer preview and is intended for web designers and developers to help prepare their websites for the launch of the next version of Internet Explorer.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/…/ie/ie8/default.mspx
CAUTION This is version 1, BETA software and you should treat it accordingly. You may want to consider carefully before actually installing it on your machine. You may also wish to read the disclaimer available from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/…/ie8/readiness/Disclaimer.htm
The beta version is available for both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Some of the new features include:
Activities are contextual services that provide ready access to external services from any web-page. They provide the ability to
- Look Up information related to data in the current webpage
- Send content from the current webpage to another application
Learn more about Activities here
WebSlices are portions of a webpage that users can subscribe to and bring that content with them on their links toolbar wherever they are on the web. Users receive update notifications when the content changes.
Choice of layout engine
3 modes will be available (determined using X-UA-Compatible headers)
- Quirks mode - to support IE 5 and legacy browsers
- Strict mode - which supports IE7 and can also be accessed through the "emulate IE7" button
- IE 8 standards mode (the default)
Cascading style sheets 2.1 compliance
HTML improvements
resolving many cross-browser inconsistencies including
- separate URL handling for attributes
- get/set/remove attribute now compatible with other browsers
- support for default HTML attributes
Improved namespace support
Platform performance improvements
Built-in Developer tools
Improved Security
Additional features will be provided in subsequent versions but Beta 1 includes:
- Enhanced protection from deceptive web-sites, by analysing the full URL string
- Domain Highlighting, which highlights the top level domain in the address bar enabling a user to quickly confirm that they are indeed visiting their intended web-site
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