IEBlogThe Windows Internet Explorer WeblogInternet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Now Available in 25 Languages- September 16, 2008 In August 2008, Dean announced the release of IE8 Beta 2 in English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Today the IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Internet Explorer Beta 2 in 21 additional languages. The languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 2. The Complete List of IE8 Beta 2 Languages Arabic Chinese (Hong Kong) Chinese (Simplified) Chinese...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/16/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-now-available-in-25... Whats New for IE8 Search- September 15, 2008 Hello World! Im Sharon Cohen, Program Manager for Search in Internet Explorer 8. If youre already using IE8 Beta 2, youve probably already seen the new search features available in IE8, perhaps youve even tried them out. Today Id like to show you these features in greater detail and fill you in on some of the things we were thinking about when we created them. Our goal for IE8 is to make searching for what you need faster and easier. We want you to search for the right term on the right..http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/15/what-s-new-for-ie8-search.aspx The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part II: A Few More Features- September 12, 2008 In an earlier post, we introduced the new IE8 Smart Address Bar dropdown functionality. Now we thought wed spend some time discussing some of its less obvious features in more detail. More about the IE8 Smart Address Bar Autocomplete Suggestion With Windows Search installed, IE8 makes an attempt to determine what site youre trying to get to. The site that it determines is most likely the one youre looking for is called the Autcomplete Suggestion. This entry is given the SHIFT+ENTER shortcut,..http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/12/the-ie8-smart-address-bar-part-ii-a-few-more-f... Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler- September 11, 2008 Hello! I am Sameer Chabungbam, one of the Program Managers on the JScript Team. The recently released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 contains a lot of improvements which are aimed at making developing web applications on Internet Explorer 8 easier and more productive. One of these improvements is the JScript Profiler in Developer Tools, which provides critical JScript related performance data to a web developer that helps identify and fix performance related issues. We believe the Profiler is...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/11/introducing-the-ie8-developer-tools-jscript-pr... The IE8 Smart Address Bar Without Windows Search- September 11, 2008 As mentioned in the first post on this topic, the IE8 Smart Address Bar works better with Windows Search installed. However, IE8 does not require Windows Search, and IE8 will still provide a superior experience to IE7 if its not there. We are going to go through and detail the differences between IE8 with and without Windows Search so people can understand the trade-offs. To start with, we made a choice to use Windows Search as our index & query engine when we began work on IE8...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/11/the-ie8-smart-address-bar-without-windows-sear... Introducing the IE8 New Tab Page- September 11, 2008 Hello everyone! One of the features we improved in IE8 is the new tab page, which is the page you see by default when you click the New Tab button on the Tab row, or if you hit CTRL+T (the keyboard shortcut that does the same thing). Were the Program Managers for this page and would like to walk you through the history and evolution of this feature to what it is today in IE8 Beta 2. When IE7 was released in 2006, many users did not know what tabs were, so our new tab page didnt really do...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/10/introducing-the-ie8-new-tab-page.aspx Native JSON in IE8- September 10, 2008 As you may have guessed from the title of this post, Internet Explorer 8, as of Beta 2, offers native JSON parsing and serialization. This new native JSON functionality enables Internet Explorer 8 aware AJAX applications to run both faster and safer! Whats JSON For those of you that are not die hard AJAX developers, allow me to provide a bit of background. JSON is a simple human readable data interchange format often used by AJAX applications when transmitting data between the server and the...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/10/native-json-in-ie8.aspx The IE8 Smart Address Bar Part 1: Navigate Easier and Faster- September 10, 2008 For Beta 1, we discussed some of the technical improvements (like domain highlighting, multi-line paste, and improved click behavior) we made to IE8s address bar. For Beta 2, we took the covers off of even bigger changes which fit in with our goal of making navigation easier and faster with IE8. Starting with Beta 2, when you type in the Address Bar, IE8 returns results not just based on the URL of the sites youve visited, but the title and other properties as well. It has an updated look that..http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/09/the-ie8-smart-address-bar-part-1-navigate-easi... Whats New in JScript for IE8 Beta 2- September 9, 2008 One of the key themes for IE8 is developer productivity. IE8 Beta 1 improved developer productivity through an optimized core scripting engine and script debugger. In this release, we continued to invest in the areas that bring more power and productivity to the web developer community. Here is a quick summary of the work that weve done for IE8 Beta 2: Scripting Engine Many enhancements have been done to the scripting engine. One feature that will bring a lot of value to the AJAX developers is..http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/09/what-s-new-for-jscript-for-ie8-beta-2.aspx Platform Improvements for IE8 Beta 2- September 8, 2008 Weve been sharing plenty about the work weve done in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for browser users; we also want to share some of the notable advances weve made in the web developer platform in Beta 2. This post serves as an overview of the web platform changes since beta 1 that will be covered in more detail in the coming days and weeks. The Layout Engine First and foremost, weve been hard at work improving our standards support we are now CSS2.1 property complete, meaning weve...http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/08/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-platform-improvemen... |