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Thursday, February 28, 2008

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IE8 Out And About - in Beta

- Matt Faulkner

ieicon So there looks to be a Beta of Internet Explorer 8 out there to some select beta testers.  I know there is a public beta coming soon, but for now, any GBM readers out there with their Tablet PC's running the new IE8 Beta??

Microsoft is planning a public beta of the new browser, and rumors have it that it will be released after Mix08 - March 5-7, so the wait might not be much longer...

And it does pass the Acid2 test now :)

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2/28/2008 7:20 AM MST  

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Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:15:08 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Yes it does pass Acid2...but you have to explicitly tell the browser to turn on standards mode in order for it to render properly. An idea that is directly opposed to the general principle of web standards.

Version targeting makes me feel like we're in the middle of a 1990s style browser war.
Ryan
Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:26:54 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Hopefully the IE7 problems listed at http://www.segal.org/browser/ will be fixed. During the IE7 beta many of us asked for a fix to the toolbar lockdown and were turned down. Reportedly Microsoft has now seen the light on this issue, which caused me to switch to Firefox.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:48:44 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
It doesn't look like there is actually a download for testers yet and Connect does still say that it's coming soon.
Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:42:02 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)
Anyone know if it allows you to tag websites like firefox 3?
scoobie
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