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Posted by rabbitjoker on Mar-20-2009 15:03:

IE8 Released!

http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

Download/Upgrade Today!

New Features:
- InPrivate Browsing
- Accelerators
- Enhanced Navigation
- Increased Performance
- Improved Favorites and History Management
- Instant Search
- Web Slices

Internet Explorer 8 is the FASTEST page-loading browser yet!

IE8 has been tested to compatible with nearly all top websites.

http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

Posted by Abercrombie on Mar-20-2009 15:27:

I've been using the beta, and can't stand the alt-F4 search box. I much preferred a pop-up. The box stays on top, even when you switch pages, and I constantly got to close it. Pain in the ass.
Some sites, it won't generate the full page, and you gotta click on the compatibility broken page icon next to the address bar to regenerate the page.

I'm not happy so far.

Posted by Orko on Mar-20-2009 15:37:

How is it for adhering to web standards? I heard its getting even worse from a friend who is a web developer thats been working with it.

And, is it really faster than chrome?

Posted by StereoPrincess on Mar-20-2009 15:50:

none of the stuff that i need for work actually work on the fucking thing.

big fail.

Posted by jon jon on Mar-20-2009 15:59:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
none of the stuff that i need for work actually work on the fucking thing.

big fail.

bahahha

Posted by rabbitjoker on Mar-20-2009 16:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Orko
How is it for adhering to web standards? I heard its getting even worse from a friend who is a web developer thats been working with it.

And, is it really faster than chrome?

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...nmistakable.ars

Speed
In terms of actual rendering, Microsoft made a bold move last week when it announced performance tests that showed IE8 trumping Firefox 3.05 and Chrome 1.0. This wasn't your typical synthetic JavaScript speed test though; Microsoft trumpeted real-world usage of websites and demonstrated how IE loaded the most (out of the top 25) websites faster.

Standards
In terms of improved standards support, IE8 now passes the Acid 2 test completely... Microsoft is ... touting that out of the 7,200 CSS 2.1 tests that are on the w3.org, IE8 passes more of them than any other browser.

The leaps Microsoft has taken between IE6 and IE7, as well as between IE7 and IE8, are arguably larger than those any other browser maker has made in its major versions

Posted by rabbitjoker on Mar-20-2009 16:02:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
none of the stuff that i need for work actually work on the fucking thing..

We were using the beta until yesterday (minor issues have since been addressed with the release version).

Posted by E2EK1EL on Mar-20-2009 16:08:

Hmmmm gonna upgrade when the time is "right".

Posted by Mr Moss on Mar-20-2009 16:14:

i dont see how IE can regain any ground in the browser market at this point, seems like ff is just too happening right now

Posted by rabbitjoker on Mar-20-2009 16:14:

Add-ons for IE8

Over 1000 add-ons for IE8 available at: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/

Posted by dEsidEL on Mar-20-2009 16:20:

if there's no adblock, scriptblock, and webmail notifier extension capability, i'm not interested..

let's have a look..

Posted by smuncky on Mar-20-2009 16:22:

just watched the videos about the new stuff in this version. looks pretty cool. will have to test it out to see if it actually speeds up my browsing.

thanks for the info RJ!

Posted by kaniz on Mar-20-2009 16:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Moss
i dont see how IE can regain any ground in the browser market at this point, seems like ff is just too happening right now

- Corporations that have internal applications that /only/ work in IE
- Many web-users that cant be bothered to download 3rd party browsers and just click on "accept updates" from Microsoft

IE still has a big market share and I don't see it going away any time soon. Like most other Microsoft Apps, IE will always have it's place in a business setting for a long time.

Posted by love_child on Mar-20-2009 16:51:

IE ftw!!!

Posted by malek on Mar-20-2009 17:14:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
I've been using the beta, and can't stand the alt-F4 search box. I much preferred a pop-up. The box stays on top, even when you switch pages, and I constantly got to close it. Pain in the ass.
Some sites, it won't generate the full page, and you gotta click on the compatibility broken page icon next to the address bar to regenerate the page.

I'm not happy so far.

actually that popup is very annoying, when you have to search stuff on many pages, it goes away everytime

Posted by Mr Moss on Mar-20-2009 17:23:

yea I said small chance to regain lost ground to ff, like regain those users with more time to mess around or ppl who like more customization who switched to ff

no doubt ie will always have a userbase, i think my edu is all IE and it runs fine

Posted by Prometheus Xex on Mar-20-2009 17:45:

Well so far it keeps crashing on my work computer.

Posted by rabbitjoker on Mar-20-2009 21:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Prometheus Xex
Well so far it keeps crashing on my work computer.

Be sure to upgrade all of your plug-ins.

Posted by DigiNut on Mar-20-2009 23:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Abercrombie
Some sites, it won't generate the full page, and you gotta click on the compatibility broken page icon next to the address bar to regenerate the page.

That's hardly surprising, considering that half the internet relied on the older, broken IE6/IE7 functionality. The farther along Microsoft gets toward conforming to standards (and that's what IE8 was really all about), the more stuff is going to break.

It's really no different from Windows itself. With every new version, a bunch of old apps break. The difference is, there are a (relatively) small number of Windows apps that they can just shim. Good luck doing that on the web.

I personally will not be upgrading to IE8 yet - but it's not because of Microsoft, it's because of all of the millions of broken sites made by "teach yourself ASP.NET in 28 days" web devs. And although I'm glad it finally passes Acid2, in the end it's just more work for people like me - IE7 and IE6 are still out there so it's yet ANOTHER browser I have to test on.

Posted by Prometheus Xex on Mar-21-2009 13:32:

The ine thing that I do like is when it locks up becuase of some dumbass page, at least when it restarts it bring up all the pages/tabs you were on.

Posted by SkyHigh on Mar-21-2009 13:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Prometheus Xex
The ine thing that I do like is when it locks up becuase of some dumbass page, at least when it restarts it bring up all the pages/tabs you were on.

firefox does that..

Posted by Stilez on Mar-21-2009 15:29:

so I downloaded it yest. tried it out for a bit, and I went to a page with heavy Flash content, it froze on me. I left it there for a bit to give it the benefit of the doubt in hopes that it would refresh on it's own, but instead, it crashed my computer. I haven't had that happenin who knows how long. I've reverted back to IE7 for now...until all the kinks have been ironed out.

Posted by zokissima on Mar-21-2009 16:25:

Been on the beta since it was first available. Considerably faster than IE7, fairly stable thus far.

Posted by Jer on Mar-21-2009 18:21:

Beta 1 was choppy, Beta 2 was EXCELLENT.. Once it hit RC status everything went to shit though. Now that it's finally in release stage, it's MILES more stable than it was in RC.

Posted by VERTiG0 on Mar-21-2009 18:55:

Oh good another version of the shittiest browser available, this is exactly what I wanted

Additionally:

quote:
Originally posted by StereoPrincess
none of the stuff that i need for work actually work on the fucking thing.

big fail.

Hahahah.

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