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Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived

readwriteweb.com — Microsoft's next-generation web browser, Internet Explorer 8, has arrived. In a surprising move, after the demo of IE8 and its new features at today's session of the MIX08 conference.

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  • jgtg32a, on 03/06/2008, -14/+497The program you use to DL Firefox.
  • Ploosheeta, on 03/06/2008, -53/+352What's Internet Explorer?
  • stutimandal, on 03/06/2008, -5/+286It's in Beta. IE 8 Beta. Not IE 8.
  • ahpro, on 03/06/2008, -90/+345www.getfirefox.com
  • Timan, on 03/06/2008, -10/+224Just a tip for web devs out there, if you know some of your visitors will be using the beta, this will force ie8 to view your site in ie7 mode. Quick fix for alot of the problems in the beta...
    < meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
  • JayCruz, on 03/06/2008, -21/+233The Browser wars.
  • TomScrace, on 03/06/2008, -18/+211I'm quite prepared to give this a chance, but I don't hold out much hope.
  • jasmin888, on 03/06/2008, -93/+282YAAAAAAAAWN
  • EXreaction, on 03/06/2008, -9/+189I'd like to see a lighter Firefox...not that I like IE, but I hate it when FF slows to a crawl and locks everything up.
  • woofers07, on 03/06/2008, -4/+153I'll still be bitching about all the a-holes that will still be using IE 6 or earlier.
  • mrn111, on 03/06/2008, -1/+137Especially loading a certain web site's comment system.
  • inactive, on 03/06/2008, -12/+129I just downloaded it, and I feel like I cheated on my wife...my furry ginger wife.
  • eclip5e, on 03/06/2008, -10/+125Hooray for passing ACID2 tests, and a nice use of microformats to implement web slices.
  • WhatsUpWithJack, on 03/06/2008, -26/+132IE is for people who want to Explore the Internets.
    Firefox is literally just that, a fox set ablaze.
    Safari is an African adventure
    Opera is a musical play.
  • legoalert33, on 03/06/2008, -46/+139Open source doesn't necessarily mean best. If Microsoft improved that much and IE8 is better, I would rather use IE8.
  • inactive, on 03/06/2008, -10/+92Now that, IE8 will be standards compliant what will everyone bitch about??!!
  • BinaryFragger, on 03/06/2008, -0/+81It's nice to see the competition heating up again, with Firefox 3.0, IE8, Opera 9.50 and Safari 3.1 all currently undergoing beta testing. It'll be interesting to see which innovations will be created due to the rekindled browser war (anything but proprietary HTML tags, please!).
  • Bakie, on 03/06/2008, -26/+103Link to download:
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamil ...
  • JoWiGo, on 03/06/2008, -5/+72As a developer I'm fairly excited. I'm looking forward to when Microsoft releases it in a Windows update so that more people have it.
  • diablozx9, on 03/06/2008, -16/+83I dont see the Linux version ?????
  • thejokell, on 03/06/2008, -5/+59How about that GIANT toolbar? I want my browser to dedicate the most space to the site I'm looking at as possible. IE7 and 8 don't do that.
  • AzureRise, on 03/06/2008, -24/+78You're right, doesn't necessarily mean best, it just usually is.
  • gr00vy, on 03/06/2008, -3/+47Everything is.
  • gllopc, on 03/06/2008, -2/+42OMG, yes. Corporations aren't moving to IE7, primarily due to it's interface. It's just different enough to create a hundred Help Desk calls for every 2000 users or so. (My estimation)
  • inactive, on 03/06/2008, -7/+45Firefox 3 does, and it's been perfectly usable for awhile.
  • stoanhart, on 03/06/2008, -4/+40You guys should try FF3B3 - the digg comment woes are over.
  • jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -25/+61The one thing I would like to see is a lighter IE (I don't know if this will be it). Firefox loads much faster than the current IE.
  • atarix64, on 03/06/2008, -4/+34Dude upgrade to IE7 or IE8 do you have any idea what a pain IE6 is for doing cross browser design. But yet 30% of the poopulation still uses it...

    Not to mention is sucks.
  • stoanhart, on 03/06/2008, -3/+32You don't. This will tell IE8 to use IE7's suck mode. You could also strip all IE7 hacks and not put that code in, and IE8 will use the actual standards. This is MS fixing their mistakes, so from here on in there should be very, very few special cases.
  • DarkDx, on 03/06/2008, -8/+35LOL
    You win
  • CitizenC, on 03/06/2008, -0/+26Yes, absolutely. On both counts.

    Current & past versions of Internet Explorer do not comply with web standards in the same way that Opera or Firefox does. This new version DRAMATICALLY improves on this. Us web developers have been bitching at Microsoft to support web standards in their browser for years; they're finally listening.
  • zushiba, on 03/06/2008, -2/+28We lambasted Internet Explorer for not keeping up with the times, not being standards compliant and lacking modern browser functions such as tabbed browsing.
    The Internet Explorer team listened and is honestly working towards fixing these issues.
    Regardless of whether or not this will get you to switch or even switch back to IE the fact that it will eventually find it's way into the households of little old ladies or (my parents, please god) means they will now be browsing with at least a little more security and those slow or stubborn people who refuse to get FireFox no longer have to have sites designed twice, once for us and then again for them.
    So what if you don't like it and wont use it, the important thing is that it makes less work for us web developers and that is a godsend. Thanks IE team.
  • Shiftgood, on 03/06/2008, -12/+38Does this mean i dont have to sit and de-bug for 1,000 hours on IE?
  • jgtg32a, on 03/06/2008, -2/+28Nah its all about interface and addons now
  • thailand1972, on 03/06/2008, -4/+30Don't feel bad - your wife sucks at RAM management.
  • IphtashuFitz, on 03/06/2008, -9/+34Because IE has historically been so closely tied Windows it's been an excellent vector for exploits of all sorts. Unless Microsoft has completely unwed IE from the operating system, which I don't think they're able to do given past decisions and a history of backward compatibility, I'd still consider an open source browser to be much more secure than IE8. There have been documented cases in the past where earlier versions of IE had exploits that Microsoft didn't publicize or fix in a timely manner. Documentation and patching of open source browsers have historically been much more rapid and transparent. Given the history of IE and the likelihood that it's tied just as tightly to Windows I personally won't trust it until it's been in use and vetted by the general public for quite some time. Even then you'll have to trust that Microsoft will be fully forthcoming with bug reports and patches, which they've demonstrated you couldn't always trust in the past.
  • angelfelix, on 03/06/2008, -9/+34I'm using it and at first sight it actually seems much faster than IE7
  • PleaseJustDie, on 03/06/2008, -4/+28firefox 3 does, so if you want an ACID2 compliant Firefox you can download the beta of that or wait for it to be fully released.
  • HigherLogic, on 03/06/2008, -1/+24What about Opera? It brought countless innovations, some more than a decade ago, before anyone else. Most of them are used by all modern browsers now (like tabbed browsing). They're not open source. One feature I'd like to see other browsers integrate is a true multiple document interface (MDI).
  • gr00vy, on 03/06/2008, -1/+23That is some real business talent you got there bucko.
  • renegadeafk, on 03/06/2008, -2/+24Firefox 2 is pretty slow, but firefox 3 beta 4 is currently way faster than IE in UI speed/responsiveness, startup time and page rendering.
  • TheRealTopherG, on 03/06/2008, -6/+26Netscape Navigator... FTW!!!
  • saxreturns, on 03/06/2008, -1/+21http://digg.com/how
  • Dipster, on 03/06/2008, -1/+21Firefox is a jet. Stolen by Clint Eastwood. :)
  • mattus, on 03/06/2008, -4/+23Firefox 2 was released over 18 months ago. Firefox 3 will be out shortly and renders the Acid test perfectly.
  • NotReally91, on 03/06/2008, -8/+27That toolbar is GIANT!
  • MirandaJanell, on 03/06/2008, -2/+21The bane of all web application developers.
  • SkippyDoorknob, on 03/06/2008, -1/+20Lynx!
  • PoopOnPaul, on 03/06/2008, -1/+20I really want "poopulation" to have been intentional
  • Buddhist, on 03/06/2008, -4/+22ba dum tssssh
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