Internet Explorer 8 has been launched

Mar 05, 2008

If you are interested you can download and install the Internet Explorer 8 beta 1. A few days ago I had read that the latest version of Internet Explorer will be standards compliant and the blogger who mentioned that was quite skeptically surprised. Does this mean designers who want to create CSS-based layouts will not be facing roadblocks in Internet Explorer 8?

Although I don’t design websites for a living — not any more — I have spent many nights trying to make my layouts look the same in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

A major feature being talked about is the integration of FaceBook in Internet Explorer. I have just started using FaceBook so I don’t have much idea how beneficial this feature is going to be. But one thing is of sure: social networking websites are fast becoming the part and parcel of the mainstream software applications. You will soon have a FaceBook icon in your operating system in a year or so.

Anyway, I installed Internet Explorer 7 many months ago but I’m so used to using Firefox by now that I rarely used it; I use it for websites that only open in Internet Explorer.