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- Gumboot, on 08/28/2008, -4/+269This article is terrible; it is extremely light on content and it implies the best new feature is "tabs" (available for two years now). Can we have an article from someone who knows what they are talking about please?
- irishjays, on 08/28/2008, -8/+223It's a web browser about nothing!
- UpperUpsilon, on 08/28/2008, -6/+186Well, I guess IE8 does have the new "Porn Mode."
- s4g4n, on 08/28/2008, -18/+177But will it be able to load Crysis.com?
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -17/+154And one day IE will mate with firefox and they will have a baby called....
STAAAAARFOOOOOOOOX EXPLOOOOOOOREEEEER !!!!!!
(I predict this comment will get massively dugg down for being incredibly lame. I'm a financial stock advisor so I know.) - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -3/+126IE 8 has tabs! Zoinks!
So did IE 7.
This article is pretty half-assed.
Here's a better title: "Easily Impressed Faux-Blogger Covers Minor Tech News" - twiztidsinz, on 08/28/2008, -12/+110Not if Crysis.com uses W3C standards.
- geoken, on 08/28/2008, -1/+90The best is how they dance around the issue. Here is their official description of porn mode from their site;
"InPrivate Browsing
Keep Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History with InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won’t accidentally find out." - lostngone, on 08/28/2008, -25/+105* Paid for by Microsoft...
- sirhomer, on 08/28/2008, -6/+79I'm glad Microsoft is getting serious about web standards, but even with this release they are far behind. One thing that is sorely lacking in Internet Explorer is proper SVG support.
- mv1008, on 08/28/2008, -1/+57better get a new job then
- Anigma, on 08/28/2008, -16/+69Still fail.
Any website that needs to explain what "tabs" are is clearly targeting a userbase that knows jack ***** about computers anyways, and is going to listen to whatever a stupid website tells them. - cabdirazzaq, on 08/28/2008, -5/+47What makes firefox superior to IE is not so much the browser but the many useful addons.
- scy1192, on 08/28/2008, -1/+41tabs were IE7's main selling point
- mobbo, on 08/28/2008, -0/+35"IE 8 has tabs as well... and a button that shows miniature versions of all open tabs on one screen."
Is this guy reviewing IE7? - Dermah, on 08/28/2008, -0/+33That's exactly what Apple said for the Safari Porn Mode.
- zwaldowski, on 08/28/2008, -1/+32It's not a technology for web developers. You know how most - if not all - image formats more or less contain data of pixels? In other words, a black pixel line is a row of pixels with black filling. That's called a raster image. Static. As well, rasters suck at being scaled, since it's basically a formula for blending pixel colors together.
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphic. Vector graphics (particularly SVG) use an XML-like format to say, for example, "here's a black line, it's this long". This is great because it can be rendered at any shape or size (except really small ones, like anything below 32x32) and still look great. SVG has built-in standards like text anti-aliasing, shadows, and gradients.
Future SVG technology will include scalable video - much like the high-end implementations of Microsoft's Silverlight that you see today. Think of it kind of like the moving photos in Harry Potter. - FreakyT, on 08/28/2008, -22/+52IE8 is much better; it's really fast, rivaling even Firefox for speed. I'm still sticking with FF for now, but it's good to see such improvement from MS.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+30i hate the porn mode, later when i'm looking for that good anal video, i can't find it damnit!!
- senae, on 08/28/2008, -1/+29Tools > Barrel Roll
- SpamBuntu, on 08/28/2008, -2/+30right. as far as i've seen, there's NO SVG support at all.
- Ramenhood, on 08/28/2008, -3/+31"Imagine what Office would look like if it had competitors.." ... Open Office, The Corel series.. wow the authors dumb.
- jeexbit, on 08/28/2008, -2/+28Whatever gets IE6 out of the way faster, bring it.
- FutureGuy, on 08/28/2008, -5/+31Go to the source
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer ...
WARNING!!! this link takes you to Microsoft's site. - inactive, on 08/28/2008, -11/+35I wish they'd release a version of IE8 for OS X. I'm sick of having to use Parallels to find out what Internet Explorer breaks in sites I design.
- gasoline, on 08/28/2008, -6/+29Oh baby you're gonna get buried.
- scy1192, on 08/28/2008, -1/+24any word on Acid2 and Acid3 test results?
- SpamBuntu, on 08/28/2008, -1/+21hmm, well, there are some real standards (like those from the W3C) and some pseudo-standards (like those from microsoft).
microsoft would do itself a big favor, by supporting the real ones.
remember those activeX-elements? well, most web developers, luckily, don't ;) - svivian, on 08/28/2008, -1/+20Well I hope they release it soon and somehow force everyone to throw out IE6 and IE7. They ought to make it a high-priority Windows update.
- Anigma, on 08/28/2008, -2/+21Theres another Firefox version that is optional, free AND opensource. Its called Firefox 3.
- geodebug, on 08/28/2008, -1/+20Don't waste that wish, no guarantee that the two would be 100% the same (see MS Word). Even if IE8 for OS X existed (perish the thought) you'd still have to test on Windows to make sure everything worked. In fact it would only add to the number of browsers you'd have to test.
- razor150, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22You sound like he insulted your girlfriend.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -4/+22Well there's numbers (diggs) and they go up and down just like stocks. That's why a financial stock advisor such as myself has an edge on digg.
- funkyloki, on 08/28/2008, -1/+19Considering that you are being dugg up so far, maybe you aren't that good at advising stocks either. WTF does being a financial stock adviser (is there any other kind of stock adviser) have to do with knowing what other people are going to think about a comment on Digg?
- fwertz, on 08/28/2008, -13/+30Just because it's trendy to hate on Microsoft, doesn't mean they can't produce competeing software.
- Dotcommer, on 08/28/2008, -2/+19I buried you even though we both use macs because your narrow minded and jaded opinion embarrass me. I think its time you dropped the windows vs. mac *****. They're ***** tools! Use what works best for you and makes you more efficient, don't waste your time putting snide remarks like this on forums so your smug self can feel satisfied.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -0/+17Ok. I'll give you a freebie. Invest on Infinium Labs ASAP.
- PabloMac, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18Yeah, Firefox's tail isn't the only thing Microsoft is pulling on.
- norman619, on 08/28/2008, -3/+20What is SVG? Serious question. I'm not a webpage developer.
- inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18Like Java? We know how well that turned out.
- rynTAU, on 08/28/2008, -4/+21but is it W3C compliant?
- zaqarov, on 08/28/2008, -2/+18while W3C, Mozilla, Google, Apple and the likes are pushing a combination of SVG, H.264, AJAX/JavaScript, Microsoft is trying to establish Silverlight as a Flash-killer.
If they start using open standards, there's no money to be made, so they try and push their own proprietary 'standards', and hope they can get enough browser market share to win the battle.
Apparently they're confident people are really going to like IE8, and not only stick with it, but actually convert people back from Firefox, Opera, Safari/WebKit. - rocketship47, on 08/28/2008, -0/+15it's hard to take this article seriously, their best argument for firefox is that it has tabbed browsing?
- CCB0x45, on 08/28/2008, -0/+15Hey, just FYI for the way that I do it these days, microsoft releases little virtual pc images with just the browser on them so they are relatively small, and I then convert the images to virtualbox images(which is free and you can find tutorials on google for converting them), so then you can quickly run every browser in its natural environment under OS X. It has been a life saver(I used to use parallels like you, but its slower since these images are very scaled down, just the OS and the browser, and you can have an image for IE8, IE7, and IE6 for testing all running simultaneously(still runs relatively nicely on my MPB).
- ChronicColonic, on 08/28/2008, -2/+16And according to this article...the speed is much better than IE7, but still lacking compared to Firefox.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Internet_Explorer_8_Beta ... - MacHarborGuy, on 08/28/2008, -10/+24thats not the opinion of Leo LaPorte and Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly. Beta 2 of IE8 doesn't seem to be rendering anything properly, and from what I have seen, even properly designed sites based on W3C standards don't render properly in IE8. Once again, hacks will be needed to get IE to look correct when using web standards.
Same old IE - MScrip, on 08/28/2008, -3/+17Nope... because they don't matter!
My current browser, Firefox 3, gets a 71/100 on Acid 3. But every other website I visit looks fine to me. I've never come across a website that is rendered so horribly wrong that I switch browsers. That's MY my test. - bradleyland, on 08/28/2008, -0/+13Can I get your stock picks? I've been looking to short some easy kills.
- zekard, on 08/28/2008, -1/+14IE8 passes Acid2, and i think they are shooting for Acid3. Afaik IE8 doesn't pass Acid3 yet.
- Galaxylander, on 08/28/2008, -1/+14And how exactly are Firefox and Safari hard to use?
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