Internet Explorer 8 Beta Features Revealed 281
Admodieus writes "It seems as though the veil has been lifted on the Internet Explorer 8 beta. Microsoft has revealed a list of the new features in IE8, including two interesting new additions called Activities and WebSlices. From the site: 'Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do ... WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.' Also aboard the upgrade train is automatic crash recovery, a favorites toolbar, and improved phishing filter protection. Microsoft has also posted links to download the beta, but none of them are working right now."
Broken links in the summary (Score:4, Funny)
Crash recovery, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
un, effing, real. (Score:5, Funny)
Safety Filter (Score:5, Funny)
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't filter and if they don't filter
Well they're no friends of mine
Re:WOW! (Score:5, Funny)
In a rare moment of originality, a young MS exec, having just read the hitch hikers guide, sent a binary of IE7 back in time in an attempt to sue the companies developing firefox, opera and a million and one other more inventive browsers in the future for copying IE's features. Unfortunately, the court dismissed the new IE interface as a crude hoax perpetrated by 4chan, and the budding young exec was made Ballmer's personal chair man.
Not that I think the IE7 interface is an abomination of consistency and style or anything
the classic joke... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm glad they're going to be supporting all these 'new' standards.
Here we go again... (Score:0, Funny)
else if IE4
else if IE5
else if IE6
else if IE7
else if IE8
GetFirefox()
fi
Re:Broken links in the summary (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Crash recovery, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yeah, that's because I haven't used IE in the past 4 years.
IE8 supports the latest features (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SVG (Score:3, Funny)
How do you guys deal with the requirement for transparency coupled with the requirement for more than an indexed color pallet? I'm thinking about replacing the logo for IE6 visitors with a logo that says "Get Firefox Already, or buy a new damn computer if that's too difficult for you."
On second though, that might be a bit too wordy.
Re:Get FF3 out already (Score:3, Funny)
Must be said (Score:3, Funny)
But does it work with Linux?
Re:SVG (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Crash recovery, eh? Crash Recovery... (Score:4, Funny)
The Germans capitalize *all* their nouns, the arrogant bastards! What makes a noun so much more important than a verb? Nouns don't even *do* anything!