Microsoft have released the Internet Explorer 8 Beta for XP SP2, Vista and Windows Server 2003. You can download it here.
I'm currently running Linux, so it won't install under wine. But I'll switch over to Windows this weekend and give it a full review. I'm looking forward to seeing if it's any better than IE7.
Microsoft have a list of the new features though. One thing that they've also started to focus on is better AJAX support.
Notes Archive March 6th, 2008 (2)
Acid3 Test Released
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2008
The Acid3 Test has been released by the Web Standards Project.
There's an article on DrunkenFist with screenshots of how the most common browsers render the test. From what I can see not a single one passes with 100/100, but Safari 3 gets pretty close with 87. Of course, Internet Explorer fails miserably, but I'd expect nothing less. Firefox 3 doesn't mess up the layout as much as the others, but still only scores 59/100.
It'll be interesting to see how, and if, popular browsers like Firefox and Opera adjust to be better at handling the standards and whether any of them will be able to get 100/100 anytime soon.
There's an article on DrunkenFist with screenshots of how the most common browsers render the test. From what I can see not a single one passes with 100/100, but Safari 3 gets pretty close with 87. Of course, Internet Explorer fails miserably, but I'd expect nothing less. Firefox 3 doesn't mess up the layout as much as the others, but still only scores 59/100.
It'll be interesting to see how, and if, popular browsers like Firefox and Opera adjust to be better at handling the standards and whether any of them will be able to get 100/100 anytime soon.