internet explorer 8
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | The odds are good that no matter what your preferred browser you don’t spend a lot of time with the zoom feature, but the recently released Internet Explorer 8 has a few neat zoom tricks up its sleeve. More »
Learn To Tweak Zoom In Internet Explorer 8
3:00PM Angus Kidman | The odds are good that no matter what your preferred browser you don’t spend a lot of time with the zoom feature, but the recently released Internet Explorer 8 has a few neat zoom tricks up its sleeve. More » 
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9:00AM Angus Kidman | Granted, it doesn’t have the full-on extensions capabilities Firefox users get addicted to, but there’s still plenty you can customise in Internet Explorer 8 even without playing with the new Web Slices and Accelerators features. More »
How To Customise Internet Explorer 8
9:00AM Angus Kidman | Granted, it doesn’t have the full-on extensions capabilities Firefox users get addicted to, but there’s still plenty you can customise in Internet Explorer 8 even without playing with the new Web Slices and Accelerators features. More »
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Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate Feature Is A Competent Ad Blocker
3:30AM Adam Pash | Apart from loading web pages, there’s one thing that most of our readers want their browser to do: Block annoying advertisements. Web site Neowin points out that Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate feature does just that. More »
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1:00PM Angus Kidman | NineMSN — a site co-owned by Microsoft — is one of dozens of popular Australian sites which won’t render properly in Internet Explorer 8. What gives? More »
Why Are So Many Australian Sites On The IE8 Compatibility View List?
1:00PM Angus Kidman | NineMSN — a site co-owned by Microsoft — is one of dozens of popular Australian sites which won’t render properly in Internet Explorer 8. What gives? More »
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4:30PM Angus Kidman | Internet Explorer 8 is now in general release, but that doesn’t mean that the product is bug-free. In an interesting move, Microsoft has now opened up its online bug tracking database for IE8 to the general public, meaning you can vote on which bugs you’d like to see fixed most urgently. Many of the currently listed bugs are relatively minor rendering issues, but it’s a good place to check in if you are having issues with how IE8 handles your own site, or weird performance problems.
IE8 Technical Beta Bug Database [via IEBlog]
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Vote On Which IE8 Bugs You Want Fixed
4:30PM Angus Kidman | Internet Explorer 8 is now in general release, but that doesn’t mean that the product is bug-free. In an interesting move, Microsoft has now opened up its online bug tracking database for IE8 to the general public, meaning you can vote on which bugs you’d like to see fixed most urgently. Many of the currently listed bugs are relatively minor rendering issues, but it’s a good place to check in if you are having issues with how IE8 handles your own site, or weird performance problems.
IE8 Technical Beta Bug Database [via IEBlog]
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The Surprising Search Tools In Internet Explorer 8
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | The Google Operating System blog points out that the recently released Internet Explorer 8 packs in a good number of power user features for serious searching, including suggestions from the search bar, instant “answers,” and right-click “accelerators.” We’re using “surprising” in the headline because, for most of its history, IE8 followed the company line of a lot of Microsoft products, extending advanced features only to in-house products like MSN, Hotmail, or the myriad of Live web services. Now IE8 can, however, pull in native search suggestions from Google, if you’ve made that your default search provider, and adding other search providers can give you things like direct jumps to Wikipedia pages and product image results from Amazon. Right-clicking a selected word or phrase brings up your installed accelerators, so you can translate with Google, map with Yahoo, or plug the words into any other service. Neat, useful stuff; a more detailed breakdown is offered by Alex at the link below. Web Search Tips for Internet Explorer 8 [Google Operating System] More »
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10:30AM Angus Kidman | If you’ve managed to download Windows 7, then the official IE blog has a useful rundown on what features of Internet Explorer 8 work differently on the new Windows platform. Most of the changes relate to the new Windows 7 interface, such as offering “jump lists” for common sites, previewing IE tabs from the taskbar and modifying the browser for touch screens. There’s also a handy list of IE plug-ins that don’t work as yet on the platforms, some of which have workarounds.
IE8 in Windows 7 Beta [IEBlog]
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Why IE8 Works Differently In Windows 7
10:30AM Angus Kidman | If you’ve managed to download Windows 7, then the official IE blog has a useful rundown on what features of Internet Explorer 8 work differently on the new Windows platform. Most of the changes relate to the new Windows 7 interface, such as offering “jump lists” for common sites, previewing IE tabs from the taskbar and modifying the browser for touch screens. There’s also a handy list of IE plug-ins that don’t work as yet on the platforms, some of which have workarounds.
IE8 in Windows 7 Beta [IEBlog]
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12:00PM Angus Kidman | Microsoft’s official IEBlog points out one of the less obvious features of Internet Explorer 8’s most recent beta: the ability to use alternate style sheets, effectively enabling people to define their own approach to site layout. While it’s likely to be some time before this feature is widely supported, it’s worth remembering when you’re laying out your pixel-precise site design that user interference is likely to be more common in the future.
The CSS Corner: Alternate Style Sheets [IEBlog]
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Using IE8 For Alternate Style Sheets
12:00PM Angus Kidman | Microsoft’s official IEBlog points out one of the less obvious features of Internet Explorer 8’s most recent beta: the ability to use alternate style sheets, effectively enabling people to define their own approach to site layout. While it’s likely to be some time before this feature is widely supported, it’s worth remembering when you’re laying out your pixel-precise site design that user interference is likely to be more common in the future.
The CSS Corner: Alternate Style Sheets [IEBlog]
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9:04AM Angus Kidman | One of the major changes in Internet Explorer 8 is that it adheres much more strictly to web standards than past IE releases. That’s a welcome and sensible move, but it has resulted in many sites not rendering well, since they have been built to work with the slightly skewed design principles of earlier IE releases. The second beta of IE8 handled this with a ‘Compatibility View’ button, but Microsoft’s internal research suggested that this wasn’t quite enough, as a post on its IEBlog explains:
We saw from the telemetry data that IE8 Beta 2 users still have to use Compatibility View a lot. Looking at our instrumentation, there were high-volume sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, bbc.co.uk, and cnn.com with pages that weren’t working for end-users with IE’s new standards compliant default. We could also see from our instrumentation that not all IE8 visitors to those sites were clicking the Compatibility View button. So, large groups of people were having a less than great experience because they weren’t aware of the manual steps required to make certain sites work.
Microsoft’s latest solution is to allow users to opt-in to an automatically updated list of popular sites that need compatibility view and have those sites rendered using the older IE7 approach without requiring manual intervention. That feature will be added to the next beta of IE8, due early in 2009 (there’s a similar feature already in Opera). This seems like a pretty good interim solution to me; share your take in the comments.
Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8 [IEBlog]
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Microsoft Plans Compatibility View Fix For Internet Explorer 8
9:04AM Angus Kidman | One of the major changes in Internet Explorer 8 is that it adheres much more strictly to web standards than past IE releases. That’s a welcome and sensible move, but it has resulted in many sites not rendering well, since they have been built to work with the slightly skewed design principles of earlier IE releases. The second beta of IE8 handled this with a ‘Compatibility View’ button, but Microsoft’s internal research suggested that this wasn’t quite enough, as a post on its IEBlog explains:
We saw from the telemetry data that IE8 Beta 2 users still have to use Compatibility View a lot. Looking at our instrumentation, there were high-volume sites like facebook.com, myspace.com, bbc.co.uk, and cnn.com with pages that weren’t working for end-users with IE’s new standards compliant default. We could also see from our instrumentation that not all IE8 visitors to those sites were clicking the Compatibility View button. So, large groups of people were having a less than great experience because they weren’t aware of the manual steps required to make certain sites work.
Microsoft’s latest solution is to allow users to opt-in to an automatically updated list of popular sites that need compatibility view and have those sites rendered using the older IE7 approach without requiring manual intervention. That feature will be added to the next beta of IE8, due early in 2009 (there’s a similar feature already in Opera). This seems like a pretty good interim solution to me; share your take in the comments.
Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8 [IEBlog]
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