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**WelshTom** · #1 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 20:42

Mwhahaa, I beat you all with my post

IE8 Beta 1 is out

**WelshTom** · #2 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 21:11

It's certainly very quick, but it renders website hostings like crap - I hope this is fixed in the final releases

**esnail** · #3 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 23:34

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Originally Posted by eUK-Thomas

Mwhahaa, I beat you all with my post

IE8 Beta 1 is out

You might have been first here with your post - but I've been using the IE8 beta since yesterday lol. I've found a few rendering issues but hopefully these will be ironed out before full release.

**WelshTom** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 23:36

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Originally Posted by esnail

You might have been first here with your post - but I've been using the IE8 beta since yesterday lol. I've found a few rendering issues but hopefully these will be ironed out before full release.

Yeh, I see it passes Acid2 however

**Brian** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-2008, 04:33

You guys are the first people I have ever seen excited about a Beta release of any M$ software. Fair play. Its a new milestone, Ill go have a few shots of whiskey in your honor!

Rock · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2008, 05:02

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Originally Posted by eUK-Thomas

Mwhahaa, I beat you all with my post

IE8 Beta 1 is out

Honestly.. I hate using IE, tooo many [unnecessary] security sort of things

Mozilla FireFox is da best !

**Ben** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2008, 05:37

Internet Explorer 7 isn't that bad, its quite fast for me, and it renders sites quite nicely as you'd expect Firefox to. I am installing IE8 now, hope to see a significant change between the two.

Edit: I like Internet Explorer 8, especially the new tools for Webmasters (and the so-called new META tag they are developing). Nonetheless, it crashed on me 30 seconds of me opening it (no surprise really, BETA and all). They are really working harder to get Web developers support (and they are really desperate for global domaince, I mean with everything going on right now, like European Sanctions and bid for Yahoo!) I must say, Internet Explorer 6 (which I had installed on an old computer at school) was rubbish, not many sites were compatible with, which shows that IE7 has improved dramatically, hopefully IE8 has done the same but better. At the end, I'll be sticking to Internet Explorer 7 for now.

P.S: Their next step is to make Internet Explorer available on Linux distros, doubtful anyway, just a thought.

**Brian** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2008, 16:07

Who is gonna use IE on a linux distro ?

**WelshTom** · #9 (**permalink**) 07-03-2008, 16:37

No one, if anyone is using linux - they'd most likely know not to use Internet Explorer :P

**paul** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 14:40

Yep, those enjoy linux beauty will not turn up to IE, anyway new features looks interesting to me like live map & facebook integration but what about speed?

**WelshTom** · #11 (**permalink**) 08-03-2008, 15:15

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Originally Posted by paul

Yep, those enjoy linux beauty will not turn up to IE, anyway new features looks interesting to me like live map & facebook integration but what about speed?

It seems a lot faster than the previous version; it also seems faster than Firefox.

**paul** · #12 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 09:30

Sound good, earlier it was proven that Firefox is faster than IE7.

**esnail** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-03-2008, 17:33

I don't think there's any denying that firefox and indeed opera are better and more accomplished browsers than IE7, but as a web developer (as a fair few people on this forum are), its important to use versions of IE for testing sites, given that still 70% or so or world users still use IE as their main browser (and a scary number of people still use IE6 - it makes you want to cry). It remains to be seen what IE8 will bring - the beta looks ok but has some crashing issues and renders forms in a very strange way indeed - but what is hopeful is that Microsoft are actually listening to the web community and making changes to the browser after feedback. The recent backtrack in Meta Versioning is a great example. I've never been a Microsoft nor IE fan - but I have to congratulate them on appearing like they actually care about producing a good product in IE8.

**Ben** · #14 (**permalink**) 26-07-2008, 16:39

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Originally Posted by esnail

I don't think there's any denying that firefox and indeed opera are better and more accomplished browsers than IE7, but as a web developer (as a fair few people on this forum are), its important to use versions of IE for testing sites, given that still 70% or so or world users still use IE as their main browser (and a scary number of people still use IE6 - it makes you want to cry). It remains to be seen what IE8 will bring - the beta looks ok but has some crashing issues and renders forms in a very strange way indeed - but what is hopeful is that Microsoft are actually listening to the web community and making changes to the browser after feedback. The recent backtrack in Meta Versioning is a great example. I've never been a Microsoft nor IE fan - but I have to congratulate them on appearing like they actually care about producing a good product in IE8.

(Sorry to bump an old thread...)

Being skeptical here, but Microsoft previously not listening to the community and now is, that's a little strange...

Just installed IE8 on my Vista laptop and it's awful, you might want to check eUKhost.com mainsite, it renders disgracefully.

It's a weird thought, aren't Microsoft developers suppose to be top of the range when, in theory, Firefox BETA's reliability are 50 x more than Microsoft's BETA's (i.e. Internet Explorer)?

At this point, I wish I could just completely remove IE from my Vista machine; funnily enough they removed that feature

**esnail** · #15 (**permalink**) 26-07-2008, 18:59

IE8 is still in Beta - so its unfair to slate it. I'd reserve judgement until the final version comes out.

**Ben** · #16 (**permalink**) 26-07-2008, 21:52

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Originally Posted by esnail

IE8 is still in Beta - so its unfair to slate it. I'd reserve judgement until the final version comes out.

You can judge based on factors of other BETA software that are not made by Microsoft; and that is what my judgement was based upon. Apart from that, I agree.

**eUKhost.com** · #17 (**permalink**) 26-07-2008, 22:25

One customer asked me to reload his windows server as he was unable to browse website hostings using IE on his windows dedicated server. I installed Mozilla Firefox and everything started working as per his expectations.

We are system admins and you can't say we don't know how to check IE settings.

Why would IE not work on Windows OS ?

Please let me know if IE should be categorized as a browser.

**DPS Computing** · #18 (**permalink**) 28-07-2008, 08:54

IE 8 - still Beta - 5 months later and still no better or further on.

Glad to see Microsoft are living up to their previous form

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