Latest features of Internet Explorer 8!

Mar 6, 2008

Around a month back or so, Microsoft decided to come up with the new version of Internet Explorer and first time ever in the history got huge praise in the digg community! I mean who would expect that a story broke on Digg’s home page, which praises Microsoft!

Did you know ? : Microsoft is the advertising partner of Digg.

Let’s check out the new features of Internet Explorer 8 :

1. Activities : This feature will allow you to do all sort of additional stuff while you are surfing the web. You’ll be able to share the link on digg, facebook, will be able to locate an address through maps and whole lot of stuff. Internet explorer 8 becomes more social with this features!

2. Webslices : This has to be the best new feature of Internet Explorer 8. It will allow you to create slices with in pages. This feature is for developers and they can specify the regions in their webpages which can act as the webslices. It’ll act as the RSS feed for that particular area of the webpage and as soon as that area changes the user will be notified about the change. This video will give you an excellent idea about webslices.

3. Automatic crash recovery : As the name suggests this feature will try to recover all the work which you were doing after the browser crashes due to uncertain reasons. I’m sure this feature will become most famous, however most of the web apps these days support automatic saving of text and they support sessions too. Still a welcome feature.

4. Emulate as IE 7 : This feature allows you to act IE 8 as IE 7. So in case there is a problem in accessing a particular website, you can always emulate IE 8 as IE 7. I guess that this feature will go away after the beta period ends.

There are few other changes too and this news has been covered by various other blogs :

1. Nirmal talks about all the new features of IE 8
2. Arpit talks about IE 8 and discusses what’s new in it for developers.
3. Ram also gave his insights on IE 8

Internet explorer 8 looks quite promising and as it seems that it’ll follow the web standards properly, we may see few people shifting to it. From 24th march onwards, I’ll stick to Firefox only as I’ll be getting my Macbook by that time. Stay tuned for more info about IE 8 and soon to be coming tips and tricks related to Apple Mac!

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