The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2008 Haha yeah, that was scary for the developer utility with the css validation and such. I sure that Microsoft will keep their promise of following the web standards to make our lives easier as developers to also ensure that a website is viewed like it should be regardless of the browser, that's crucial in my mind.I saw that a bunch of you had trouble uninstalling Beta 1 or installing Beta 2. Now I'm wondering if it was a mistake by the time Beta 3 or whatever's next comes out. They still need to increase support for other standards, CSS isn't the only important one (proper DOM support would be nice). And JS speed is improved at least, still much slower than Firefox though (Firefox is all I have to compare against) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
splicer707 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 (edited) Menu Bar and Favorites Bar. Where is the Feed Bar? I'd like my Feeds to be visible on a Bar of some sort and not hidden away in Favorites, please? Or what if I want some of my Favorites displayed in a Favorites Bar? Figured it out. RSS Feeds and Favorites can be added to the Favorites Bar - Wish it was simpler. But (Y) nice. So far IE8 is still not as flexible with customization as I would like. IMO WTF!! :rofl: Crazy stuff :rofl: Who tested this software, was it beta testers or Microsoft internal testing? Same question for features & implementation. Expected more from Microsoft. Edited August 28, 2008 by splicer707 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1nteresting Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Oh gosh, usually I'm happy about updates, but updates from Microsoft I dread. Especially INTERNET EXPLORER updates, as I'm a web designer. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumyasch Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 How did Microsoft come up with 1440 minutes (feeds) 483840 minutes (web slices) as a refresh interval. It's nuts. 1440 minutes is 24 hours. Thats reasonable. But 483840 minutes? 22 Years? WTF Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
splicer707 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Very cool. I have my RSS feeds just how I like them. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2008 It still doesn't scale fonts when the size is specified in pixels, when on earth are they going to fix that, people have been complaining about that since IE6 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EduardValencia Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I think this is a little glitch.......... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EduardValencia Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 It still doesn't scale fonts when the size is specified in pixels, when on earth are they going to fix that, people have been complaining about that since IE6 True ,also i have some weird errors on facebook Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
random_n Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Microsoft really need to get out of the Internet Browser business... seriously. Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
splicer707 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Just discovered the power of 'InPrivate Browsing' Goodbye Advertising. So how long before Microsoft get's sued or cancels this feature? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbarcus81 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Just discovered the power of 'InPrivate Browsing' Goodbye Advertising. So how long before Microsoft get's sued or cancels this feature? Good question.. LoL.. but I must say this is quite an improvement from B1... Can't wait for more!!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xiphi Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm VERY impressed with this. 'Bout time MS brought something worthwhile to the browser table. Now if IE8 would have a download manager, I would probably switch over. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumyasch Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm VERY impressed with this. 'Bout time MS brought something worthwhile to the browser table. Now if IE8 would have a download manager, I would probably switch over. And a better bookmark manager. One that at least supports dual pane view and multi-selection. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkrats Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Downloaded and installed, and immediately went to the Lenovo website to get some information on a new computer, only to find the words are extremely small and unreadable! See attached image. Anyone experience this or know what's going on? Note: Even changing the font size doesn't change anything. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbo Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Hmm I seem to have a problem but I can't seem to find any help on this. If anyone could help I would be grateful. When I right click on graphics the right-click menu is fine as you can see from this image Yet when I right click on a blank area or not on an image I get no text at all Thx for any help. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revvo Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 ^ Hmmmmm, maybe it's a beta 2 bug? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahmz Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 I can't get beta 2 to install so I had to re-install beta 1. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708632 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revvo Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Last time they did that we were stuck with Internet Explorer 6 entrenched for years. I'd much rather have active development, especially like now when they're aiming at better security, standards support, and even developing some rather novel features. I'm seriously quite glad to see Microsoft truly return to the Internet Browser business. :yes: All of this to prevent the past from being repeated again. They should have started working on IE7 a bit earlier, but they wont let Firefox grow to a market share anywhere near what Netscape had back in the day. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708650 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2008 I can't see that happening, IE won the browser war by out-innovating Netscape (at a time where standards didn't matter), and the whole anti-trust thing. But these days, IE is still really far behind, they can't start innovating until they catch up to other browsers (which are making leaps really fast) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
splicer707 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 @ The_Decryptor Maybe it's time Microsoft gave up on their browser and just donated money to Mozilla to badge Firefox as Microsoft's browser? IMO Microsoft is becoming less relevant in the browser scene all the time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708660 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted August 28, 2008 Supervisor Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm enjoying some of the new features of IE8. The CSS rendering has improved immensely, and I hope that they continue to work on it, bringing it at least up to compete with current browsers. It would be nice to have a built-in way to filter out undesirable content. I also hope that the IE team releases updates to IE more frequently with incremental bugfix/minor feature updates (8.1, 8.2, 8.3...) while still working on major releases (9, 10, etc). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmc777 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Is using green/yellow/red for tab colours wise? Isn't there a chance people might mistake them for safe/uncertain/dangerous? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted August 28, 2008 Supervisor Share Posted August 28, 2008 I'm pretty happy with the new address bar - I think it might actually one-up the new Location Bar on Firefox. Can Ctrl + L be remapped to just select the contents of the address bar instead of opening up that absurdly old dialog? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted August 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted August 28, 2008 I can't see a point in the coloured tabs, I had every tab in one window green because I started a google search in one tab and re-used the tabs. I think it could be more useful if you could specify colours on a per domain basis (i.e. all google tabs are green, all MS tabs are yellow, etc.) @ The_DecryptorMaybe it's time Microsoft gave up on their browser and just donated money to Mozilla to badge Firefox as Microsoft's browser? IMO Microsoft is becoming less relevant in the browser scene all the time. I'd much rather see "Microsoft Internet Explorer: Powered by Presto" than a version of Firefox re-branded. And MS is allergic to the GPL, so a closed source app would be a much better option for them. Edit: And Opera being used as the base for a new version of IE would help their market share, and the web as a whole. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(Spork) Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 so i have to ask this if i install this and dont like it for what ever reason will i be able to uninstall it ? and go back to 7 im running vista sp1 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/662524-internet-explorer-8-beta-2/page/5/#findComment-589708764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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