Latest features of Internet Explorer 8!

  06 Mar 2008 by ReviewSaurus | , ,

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!

9 Responses so far

  1. Sumesh March 6, 2008 6:19 pm

    Crash recovery seems interesting, but I’d rather they worked on the speed and stability of it rather than new software. Already its slower than FF3 and Opera 9.5.

  2. Kanak Bhandari March 6, 2008 8:21 pm

    Unless windows XP completely gets wiped off, instance of IE7 , IE6 are going to be there. I wonder how much time will browsers take to get standardized. Even though its nearly more than one year after release of IE7 only 20% of windows user have it installed..I think MS should release a update which upgrade all IE6 to IE7 :evil: :lol:

  3. ReviewSaurus March 6, 2008 10:11 pm

    @ Sumesh : well, Crash recovery seems to be interesting and as far as IE 8 is concerned it looks quite stable in beta itself. I think it still uses less ram as far as Firefox is concerned. Opera is so far best in memory consumption, it just needs to improve on it’s rendering engine.

  4. Nirmal March 6, 2008 11:34 pm

    IE8 is crashing on my Vista too frequently. :-)
    Crash recovery does work properly.

  5. ashwin March 6, 2008 11:34 pm

    Good move by MS to release a update soon on the heals of IE 7.

    Ahh… another Mac user. :) By the way, Safari will blow you away. I was also a FX users in my XP days and in my early days with OS X; but now it’s Safari. FX kind of sucks in OS X.

    First Arpit and then you. We need to have a Chennai Mac users meetup. :D Where are you getting your Mac?

  6. I_know_better March 7, 2008 11:46 am

    IE8 has one major issue and that is it has alignment issues, ajax issue, javascript issues, and the only way to correct them is by switching to IE7 render engine or go into quirks mode engine to fix them completely. So yeah uninstall it and wait for a Beta 2 release/

  7. Jon March 8, 2008 10:20 am

    While IE8 is promised to be defaulted in standards-compliant mode, something MS demanded of everybody else in the 90’s but never followed, that is about the only thing I see that’s noteworthy in this release.

    We could say, about all the other features, “Microsoft has finally which features of the other popular browsers and add-ons to copy, and once they get it right, IE8 will be out of beta.”

    @Nirmal: Good thing that crash recovery was one of the things they decided to copy!

  8. Jon March 8, 2008 10:21 am

    oops left out a word:
    “Microsoft has finally decided which features of the other popular browsers and add-ons to copy, and once they get it right, IE8 will be out of beta.�

  9. ReviewSaurus March 8, 2008 11:05 am

    @ Kanak : Well, wiping out xp is something inevitable. There are more fans of Windows XP than Vista.

    @ Nirmal : Finally people are praising the features of Microsoft products :D

    @ Ashwin : I yet have to check out once that little beauty arrives on 24th. I’m not sure if I’ll use safari or Firefox, however I think I’ll go with Firefox only as I’ve got lots of plugins, on which I depend while browsing.

    Well, it’ll be cool to have a meetup of Mac users, however, I won’t be able to attend it :[ as I've shifted back to Gurgaon.

    @ I_know_better : Well, I suggest you to use IE 8 and give feedback to MS so that hey can improve it and then we'll have less people saying that M$ sucks...which isn't the case.

    @ Jon : He he , you are right! They are making it social and putting lot of efforts. However, I've to say that they did great innovation by creating the Webslices and so you have to give them credit for this one :]

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