IE8 Beta News

Hi Everyone,

This is the second in a series of monthly newsletters for participants in the IE8 Technical Beta program.

 

[johngalt]

Yanno, I tried IE Beta 1 - and removed it in a matter of hours - it was slow, buggy, and a major PITA.

I certainly hope it gets better - right now Fx and Opera are way ahead of IE in hte game. It'll be interesting to see what IE 8 can do - form a team that had previously said there would be nothing new after IE 6....

 

[sidney1st]

I run IE8 without any major problems, i reported few bugs so far but generally speaking, it works fine and some new options are quite interesting.
Maxthon and IE7 pro managed to be compatible.

 

[03hdfatboy]

I use it with no issues...that I know of

 

[dmex]

I use it with no issues...that I know of

It has its moments and the activities stuff is cool

 

[johngalt]

I am leery of giving it another shot - but now that I am on Vista X64, it might b different....

plus, that install, comet to think of it, had its own issues as well - it took me forever and a day to figure out what I was not getting SP1 when every one else was....came down to drivers I had installed that the readiness tool never told me were in conflict but in fact were in conflict with me installing Sp1 lol....

Also, that was a POS P4 3.2 (E)GHz machine with IDE drives and 3 GB of DDR3200 RAM....

My new machine's specs might make all the difference in the world....

 

[inamsoze]

nce keep it up

 

[petrossa]

Had never serious probs with beta 1, just a few pages that loaded incorrectly. Curious what the endresult will be

 

[johngalt]

Well, there is more - I also play spades online at MSN GameZone, and I don't want to see that broken either.

But it is all good - I found the IE 8 VPC to play with so I don't have to actually install it....

 

[dmex]

MS08-031: Security update for Internet Explorer 8 Beta

MS08-031: Security update for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1

 

[Crunch]

It'd be nice to be able to use the x64 version, but what's up w/ the lack of x64 plug-in's??? Still no Flash, Shockwave, etc.

 

[johngalt]

That would be on the plugin developers....

 

[Crunch]

That would be on the plugin developers....

Yea, I know. Adobe, chief amongst them. How difficult is it to write a 64-bit Flash plug-in??

 

[johngalt]

I am not trying to be a jack*** here, but if it were easy as pie it would probably already have been written.

My *usual* response to a query like that is "If it is so easy, write one yourself...." but I wanted to illustrate the fact that the way that flash works make be tied to a 32bit system, and unless an Adobe developer can verify otherwise, we have to assume that it is not the world's easiest thing to do....