Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

tolien · 5 Mar 2008 at 23:50

The domain highlighting is interesting - it was played with ages ago in Firefox and binned (mainly because everyone said they hated it), and IE8's doing exactly the same now...

Priapus · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:11

tolien said:
The domain highlighting is interesting - it was played with ages ago in Firefox and binned (mainly because everyone said they hated it), and IE8's doing exactly the same now...

I still fail to see the point of the domain highlighting... :confused:

londonbairn · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:18

Ice On Fire said:
I still fail to see the point of the domain highlighting...

Perhaps for fake websites with URLs made to look like banks etc for people to see clearer, but then who's going to look if they are so gullible to click on the emails...

fat-600 · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:33

when i was using IE8 . it crashed after i ended it and restarted it i got pop up box saying
restore session. like what firefox does..

Fifer · 6 Mar 2008 at 10:49

Tried it as well. Worked to ok, but buggy and slow. Restored back to IE7

InvaderGIR · 6 Mar 2008 at 10:59

The 'Favourites bar' is just Firefox's Bookmarks tool bar is it not? :confused:

Internet Explorer has always been behind the times...bless it.

InvG

marc2003 · 6 Mar 2008 at 11:16

InvaderGIR said:
Internet Explorer has always been behind the times...bless it.

you what? IE has had a links toolbar for years. different name but same thing.....

InvaderGIR · 6 Mar 2008 at 11:26

marc2003 said:
you what? IE has had a links toolbar for years. different name but same thing.....

It's still behind the times, and has been. That was a comment that wasn't necessarily linked to the previous one.

InvG

z0mbi3 · 6 Mar 2008 at 14:11

fat-600 said:
i installed it for a ganda and well. i hate it
screenie if you want it

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b382/fat-600/Untitled-1-3.jpg

sorry for large size

Why not just link to the image :confused:

Tute · 6 Mar 2008 at 14:25

Not bad, but far from being in a usable day-to-day state.

Youtube wouldn't work, even the forums didn't display properly.

It's nice to see Microsoft are coming along with this, but it's no more than a tech demo at this stage really.

Cosimo · 6 Mar 2008 at 15:03

Tute said:
Not bad, but far from being in a usable day-to-day state.

Youtube wouldn't work, even the forums didn't display properly.

I thought as much and will wait for a subsequent beta.

Priapus · 6 Mar 2008 at 15:18

Will rather wait until it's out fully.

Matteysan · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:26

Didn't really like the bar between the tabs & address bar really annoyed me so i've gone back to the clean IE7. Apart from that it worked fine for me.

NathanE · 6 Mar 2008 at 18:40

It appears that around 95% of web sites don't work correctly. They've got a lot of work to do still

As above this beta is really a tech demo. To be honest they would have done better releasing a standalone "IE8 renderer tester" (I know they have one as I saw it in a Channel9 video a while ago) rather than the full blown release.

NathanE · 6 Mar 2008 at 18:43

MarcLister said:
Downloaded this. Any idea when its out proper? I'm guessing 2009 perhaps?

I would guesstimate a late summer RTM. Methinks there will be about 3 beta's too.

mrk · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:18

now that you don't need to run windows update in a browser I never even use IE anymore except for the monthly Live Onecare security scanner so /me won't be trying this!

dbmzk1 · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:56

IE7 hasn't been out that long yet!

I agree with mrk though - I never use IE at all any more.

MarcLister · 6 Mar 2008 at 22:00

mrk said:
now that you don't need to run windows update in a browser I never even use IE anymore except for the monthly Live Onecare security scanner so /me won't be trying this!

dbmzk1 said:
IE7 hasn't been out that long yet!

I agree with mrk though - I never use IE at all any more.

So I'm guessing you must both use Automatic Updates?

mrk · 6 Mar 2008 at 22:09

MarcLister said:
So I'm guessing you must both use Automatic Updates?

Nope Windows Update!

MarcLister · 6 Mar 2008 at 22:10

Ah you has Vista. I don't. So Vista lets you get Windows Updates without using IE?