March 7, 2008

Internet Explorer 8.0

IE 8.0 is pretty cool, It was launched yesterday at Mix08 and I quickly downloaded and installed it. There are a lot of new features focused for developers which I love especially the ability to debug javascript.

The fact that Microsoft has added fatures focused around developers I think aligns with Web 2.0 and the fact that there is a huge amount of development going on.

http://ajax.dzone.com/news/javascript-internet-explorer-8

Browser mode toggling

At first glance this feature makes the most sense for seeing if your IE 7 page will work ok in IE 8. In actuality, however, this will end up being very useful for developing a standards-compliant page (in IE 8, FF, Safari, Opera) and then toggling to see what the result is like in IE 7. This is so much better than the IE 6 to IE 7 jump where you have to keep your browser in a virtual machine in order for it to run side-by-side (according to Microsoft, at least - even though there were standalone solutions).

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