Yesterday Microsoft made Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 available for public download. While beta 1 was more a developer release, this beta 2 is a more public release for everyone to test the new version.
Quote from the IE Team:
We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).
Read more about this release from the IE Team blog.
Download it here.
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 1 (Developer Preview) as a public beta, so it’s now available for everyone at Microsoft.com. It’s mostly interesting at this point for Web Developers and Designers.
It’s an improved version of IE with some new features:
- HTML improvements
- CCS 2.1 compliance
- Improved performance
- Improved namespace support
- Improved Security
- WebSlices
- Activities
Download it here.
Microsoft has released beta 1 of the Internet Explorer Deployment Guide.
This guide helps you to plan and carry out a deployment of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The guide describes the system requirements and deployment methods, as well as the techniques to maintain and support Internet Explorer 7 after deployment.
Download it at source.
Microsoft has release an update for Internet Explorer 7. The update is a fix for everyone who’s computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates a Web page contents. Experiencing problems with this, check out this update.
Read more and download at source.
Yesterday Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 7, the latest version of the world’s most popular web browser.
Customers can upgrade and browse the Web with confidence knowing that the new browser provides a greater level of security, makes everyday tasks easier, and works well with the Web sites they visit.
“We listened carefully to our customers and are delivering a safer browser that makes the tasks they do every day much easier,” said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.
Financial institutions and security vendors such as PayPal and VeriSign are lining up to support the newest generation of the browser and encouraging their customers to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.
“Security is a top priority for PayPal, and we encourage our customers using Windows to download and use Internet Explorer 7,” said Michael Barrett, chief information security officer for PayPal Inc. “The new Internet Explorer 7 browser has significant security enhancements, including features that help customers protect their personal information when browsing, communicating and transacting online.”
Read more at:
Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Fact Sheet
Download links for IE7:
Neosmart has posted a review on Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3.
Since Windows Vista was first announced, for many users Internet Explorer 7 was actually the big reward: a new version of what used to be the world’s favorite browser, and – for the most part – they weren’t disappointed. Despite the progress issues in Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 has been coming along fine, and this new version brings its (Lion’s) share of features and improvements. In short, this browser has come a long way and promises to put up a real fight against the competition that only so recently overtook IE7, namely the latest versions of Firefox and Opera.
Read the full review Here.
Microsoft has released the final version of Live Favorites.
Read more at source.
Microsoft has release the first beta version of The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar which provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. This version is a preview release and behavior may change in the final release.
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:
- Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
- Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
- Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
- View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
– Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
- Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS Web feed links.
- Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
- Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
– Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
- Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
- Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.
The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.
This Beta 2 version of the toolbar contains functionality and stability enhancements over previous versions and includes the following improvements.
- You can now selectively enable and disable CSS parsing.
- The Misc menu contains a color picker.
- Several link reports are available.
- When you select an element in the DOM element tree list, the selected element scrolls into view if it is not already visible in the browser window.
Download it at source: Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta.
