Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19th 2009.
Microsoft claims that their new browser is faster, safer, and has better support for W3C standards.
New features in Internet Explorer 8:
- Accelerators - quick access to web services. On a restaurant web site, for example, you can click within the page to get maps, news, information about the restaurant, blog about it, or share it on Facebook
- Web Slice - keep up with changes to the sites you care about most
- Compatibility View - for web pages designed for older browsers
- Search Suggestions - get suggested content as you type
- New Tab features - allow you to open accidentally closed tabs, and group related tabs together using color codes
- Tab isolation - prevents a faulty web site from crashing the whole browser. Only the tab with the faulty page will close
- InPrivate - browsing the web without saving any data (like passwords, cookies, browsing history, etc.)
- SmartScreen - protects you against installation of malware, or malicious software which can compromise your data, privacy, and identity, and also damaging your computer and valuable data
Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer 8 will interpret web pages according to strict W3C standards by default.
Previously, Microsoft announced that IE 8 would use the "IE7 standard" as default, and that interpreting web pages according to strict W3C standards would be a secondary option. This created strong reactions in the web developer community, as the "IE 7 standard" does not completely conform to W3C standards. However, Microsoft have now reversed this decision, and it looks like Internet Explorer 8 will be truly standards-compliant.
IE 8 has full support for CSS 2.1. In addition, it has fixed many cross-browser inconsistencies such as get/set/removeAttribute, default attributes, Attribute object and the "q" tag.
Resources:
1.http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp
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