IE 8 Beta 1 Slips Out Under Radar
Sneaky Microsoft. At MIX08, Microsoft’s Web designer and developer conference, the company unveiled the beta release of Internet Explorer 8, plus some other boring stuff like Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2.
Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, demonstrated the latest version of the world’s crappiest most popular browser.
In Beta 1, it allegedly delivers significantly improved standards support and developer platform investments with enhanced user experiences. MS suits also said it increases interoperability, offers developers better predictability when designing sites, and will feature full support for cascading style sheet (CSS) 2.1 at release to manufacturing.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 includes integrated developer tools to quickly debug HTML, CSS and scripts in a visual environment. Two new features, Activities and WebSlices, will enable developers to reach beyond the page and introduce news ways for users to stay connected to the content and services of their choice. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download.
