Internet Explorer 8. Good day paps!
After the imminent appearance of Firefox 3, Steve (the other Steve, not this one) and his boys decided it was time to do something with their old and slow browser. Thus, the new version, Internet Explorer 8, is here. But is it any good? Hmmm…
My colleague from work, who is kind of out software expert in the office, tested it today. You can find the review of Internet Explorer 8 here, but it’s in Romanian so i doubt you’d understand anything from there 
So, here are the main conclusions:
- Internet Explorer is a lot faster than its predecessor and is almost as fast as Firefox 3 Beta 3.
- Most sites are really screwed over by the new IE8 (here’s a pic from GMaps)
- IE8 claims to be standard compliant, but Acid3 says otherwise, as the browser got only a 17/100. Way worse than Firefox 3.
- IE8 comes with two major addons: Activities (a couple of useful functions accessible via a contextual menu in each page) and Webslices (that allows you to subscribe to a certain portion of a site).
So, what does these mean? Internet Explorer is still the old paps, with a couple of bionic enhancements. But would they be enough to compete the overgrowing fox? Personally, i didn’t like Firefox 3, so i guess i would give IE8 a chance. But we shall see. In the mean time, if you want to give it s spin yourself, you can download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 from here.
Tags: browser, Firefox, Internet Explorer
Hi,
Please keep us posted on IE8. I’m still on the fence. Don’t know if I should trust it or not. Thanks.
Sure Nancy. 10x for the comment. But from the way it looks right now, although it is still a Beta 1 version, i don’t see why i should give up my Firefox on him.
Btw, i still use Firefox 2. Cause most of my favourite plugins don’t work for FF3 yet
How about you? What do you use?
Mar 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
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