http://ie8beta.cself.com Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is Released Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:35:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Internet Explorer 8 provides an simplidied programming model for AJAX development that spans browser, webpage, and server interaction. Web developer can easilly build more functional webpages with better end-user experiences as well as performance. Some of the AJAX Improvements in IE8 are explained below: 1. AJAX Navigation: This enables end-users to navigate back ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/how-to-make-your-site-internet-explorer-8-compatible-part-5-better-ajax-api/ Developer Tools Internet Explorer 8 includes tools for Web developers to debug their sites efficiently from Internet Explorer. Developers can immediately debug a site's HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from within IE8, in stead of switching between IE and separate development environment. Versioning and IE Modes Versioning and rendering modes in IE8 allows it ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/make-your-site-internet-explorer-8-compatible-part-4-dev-tools-versioning/ In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation(i.e. information like fonts, colors, spacing, positioning etc.) of a web document. In today's highly visual web environment css is a very important aspect to look into. Another important use of css is to ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/how-to-make-your-site-internet-explorer-8-compatible-part-3-latest-css-compliance/ In IE8 a new feature named "WebSlices" is added for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to the content directly within a web page. Using WebSlice, users/clients can subscribe to get updates and notify changes to the user. Even users can add the discovered WebSlices within a webpage to ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/how-to-make-your-site-internet-explorer-8-compatible-part-2-webslices/ Now that we have installed the new Internet Explorer 8 beta 1, developers need to make their site IE8 compatible. There are several designer aspects to be taken care of in this new version. Let us take the points one by one to discuss this further. First we will look into Activities. Activities Activities ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/how-to-make-your-site-internet-explorer-8-compatible-part-1-activities/ Now that Internet Explorer 8 has come for almost a day, let us take a look at the First Look at it. Before the video, few points to mention: Installation time is almost the same as IE7 in Windows XP. After Installation IE8 also prompts to restart the computer. After you restart and open ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/first-look-of-internet-explorer-8/ Today Microsoft has launched the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 version for the public. They mention it as Developer Preview version and for Web developers and Designers only. According to Microsoft, some of the new features designed for developers include a developer toolbar and improved interoperability and compatibility. One good thing ... http://ie8beta.cself.com/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-launched-today/