Comments on: Latest features of Internet Explorer 8!

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:35:19 +0000

@ 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 :]

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:51:00 +0000

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.�?

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:50:04 +0000

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!

By: I_know_better

I_know_better — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:16:57 +0000

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/

By: ashwin

ashwin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:04:05 +0000

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?

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:04:03 +0000

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

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:41:43 +0000

@ 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.

By: Kanak Bhandari

Kanak Bhandari — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:51:39 +0000

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:

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:49:26 +0000

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.