Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

Thursday, March 6th, 2008 | Uncategorized

The next incarnation of Internet Explorer is here, available in beta form for public download.

While I haven’t gotten a chance to mess around with it much, I did install it and set it up initially. One thing that intrigued me was the ability to import settings from other browsers, namely Firefox. It even detected the extensions, and had a little button to find similar ones for IE. Which brought this reaction:

“IE8 has extensions?! Niiice. (Even if they are behind the curve.)”

The main bad thing I did notice is that conditional comments are now going to be a bit screwy. Because of IE8’s new standards-compliant status, a lot of the “IE fixes” are no longer necessary. So if a conditional comment targets IE in general, then you have some “fixes” applied that shouldn’t be now that IE8 works like it should. For example, the layout on my current homepage for IE, Netflix, is somewhat messed up.

More on this and other IE8 issues to come, when I play and poke around with it some more.

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