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August 28, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 (Developer Preview)
- Accelerators (the feature formerly known as “Activities” in Beta 1): Technology allowing users to perform tasks like finding a definition of a word, posting a blog entry, mapping an address or posting a blog entry) available on the page they are viewing, instead of on a new page
- Web slices: Brings the user’s favorite data (sports scores, weather reports, stock quotes, etc.) directly into the Favorites Bar. Changes and updates are retrieved and users are visually notified of the updated information status
- Visual search suggestions: In the Instant Search box, as users type a search term, they will receive real-time search suggestions from their chosen search provider, as well as results from the users’s own Favorites and browsing history.
- Suggested sites: These are recommendations about other, related sites that might be of interest. This feature must be enabled by the user; it’s not on by default.
With this intensity and reliance, web developers and designers face an evolving set of needs including:
- Interoperability and compatibility
- Built-in tools that help both first time and experienced developers and designers get pages built right
- Browser capabilities that enable innovative experiences
Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience beyond the page and introduce a new way to seamlessly experience the best of the web, whether you are a web developer writing to standards or a user discovering a new online service.
Activities
Activities are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any web page. Activities typically involve one of two types of actions:
* “Look up” information related to data in the current webpage
* “Send” content from the current webpage to another application
System Requirements
Computer/Processor
Computer with a 233MHz processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)
Operating System
* Windows Vista x64 and x86
* Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) x64 and x86
* Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
* Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
* Windows Server 2008 x64 and x86
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) x64 and x86
Memory
* Windows Vista – 512MB
* Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) – 512MB
* Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) – 64 MB
* Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) – 64 MB
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition – 128 MB
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) – 64 MB
* Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 ia64 – 128 MB
* Windows Server 2008 – 512MB
Drive
CD-ROM drive (if installation is done from a CD-ROM)
(Internet Explorer 8 Beta is only available via download)
Display
Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor with 256 colors
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Peripherals
Modem or Internet connection; Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device
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August 28th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I have been using it for about a week and it is working fairly well. The exceptions are sites like live (find this very funny) and google maps.
There is a meta tag that you can use to force the browser to use “shortcuts” for IE6 and 7 vs. the user having to figure out “I need to click on Emulate IE7″.
The biggest help will be for .NET developers esp. those using VS 2008. You were right in the firebug copy…they have had a Developers Toolbar for IE from at least IE6 that allowed you to look at cookies etc. The biggest problem has been debugging client side javascript which has gotten a little worse with AJAX add ons for 2.0 Framework. Exponentially worse with the release of Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 (silverlight 1.1 in alphas…same base though).
Its really geared towards the Blend/Expressions/XAML/Silverlight development that they are pushing. Yes it just conveniently happens that following standards makes that much easier. Go figure but they are at least making an attempt at getting on the band wagon.
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