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Download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 FAQ

March 31, 2008 by Jason

At the beginning of this month, specifically on March 5, Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager Explorer, launched the first public beta of Explorer 8 at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. Hachamovitch emphasized from the get-go that the build was addressed not so much at the general public as at web content developers by marking a consistent leap in terms of standards support. But undoubtedly there are a variety of questions revolving around the subject of Microsoft’s next iteration of the IE . For some of them the Redmond company already has answers in place. Moreover, Microsoft is also offering for a document in which it has compiled the IE8 Beta 1 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

“In Windows Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers, the architecture has been reengineered to address interoperability with other browsers and will offer additional support for popular standards. Most notably, it will include improved support for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 2.1 specification and it renders the ACID2 test correctly. In addition, Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers will offer enhancements to DOM L2 & HTML support. Our goal for the final release is complete CSS 2.1 support,” Microsoft revealed. Read More»