Ready for IE8?
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| 20:24 UK time, Thursday, 19 March 2009
Internet Explorer 8 was launched today at . There was much talk about webstandards and some debunking about noticeable speed difference to the end user. Then all the other features which have been seen in the previous betas such as per window crash handling (as Chrome made a big deal about too) But then there was some brand new features too. seemed to use specially formatted tags (aka simular format to microformats) to build special features in the new browser. also take the ability to use specially formatted html tags to identify parts of the data on the page and offer context sensitive features. So its like the operator plugin for Firefox, but built directly into IE8. Interestingly enough 10 years ago Internet Explorer 5 was launched and you can now get IE8 from the .
Since the keynote there has been lots of talk about the general experience of Internet Explorer, for example when users upgrade from IE6 - IE8, will there toolbars and activex extras drag down the experience of the new browser? There was also a lot of people asking why Silverlight was not bundled with IE8? The response was to talk about the which it seemed most of the developers were almost unaware of.
Its also worth noting also launched on the same day but most of us are still waiting for Mac and Linux versions of chrome.
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