David Emery OnlineMicrosoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 RC1
26 January 2009
Microsoft today announced the first (and probably only) release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. In terms of its look and feel, IE8 feels a lot like IE7, though Microsoft has made a lot of changes under the hood. IE8 features a new rendering engine, support for CSS 2.1, and a ‘smart address bar’ that is very similar to Firefox’s ‘awesome bar.’ IE8 has also taken a page from Chrome’s playbook and now opens a separate process for every tab.
Anyone else slightly fed up with all the browsers we have to test in now? We’re pretty much now in the lovely situation of having three versions of IE to test in, each rendering differently to each other and each not rendering in the same way either Firefox or Safari do.
The new version of this site isn’t tested in any form of IE yet, by the way – I guess I’ll test in 7 at some point but there’s no way I’m testing in 6 for anything of mine every again… sadly on the public sites I maintain IE6 is still hovering around 10% which is still a little high to abandon quite yet (although well low enough to feed a more lo-fi experience).
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