Jason Madigan

IE8 Beta 1 Released

Today Microsoft has released Beta 1 of IE8. It includes some pretty useful developer debugging tools. You can grab a copy here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/Install.htm

Thank you, Microsoft.

I mean it. Thank you for listening to the developer community and reversing your stance on this:

In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting “Standards” mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s “IE7 Standards mode” will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach described here).