Sunday, February 15, 2009

IE8 RC1

I had initially tried IE8 when the first beta was available. I didn't have a lot of success with it so decided to wait until RC1 was available before trying again. RC1 is quite nice and I have yet to find a site I have had a problem with. Especially with the compatibility view feature. The compatibility view is available by the address bar when you visit a site that doesn't rener correctly.

Another feature I like are the accelerators. Those allow you to highlight text in a site you are looking at and directly send that text to another tool such as live search, live maps, or email via live mail. I haven't tried adding any non-Microsoft accelerators.

There are several other features available in IE8, but I haven't had a chance to test them all at this point. Here is a link to better explain and walk you through some of the features in IE8.

IE8 Videos

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