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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Features: Will IE8 Beat IE7 in Security and Privacy?

August 28, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Technology 
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Photo of Internet Explorer 8 Beta LogoThe much-anticipated release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE) Beta 2 has finally come. Many eager internet users patiently waited for the release of IE8 Beta 2 because its predecessor, Internet Explorer 7 has faced so many controversies in the past in terms of privacy and security. At the moment, I am still inclined to use Firefox 2.0.014 because so far, I have not encountered a serious flaw in this version. With Internet Explorer 7, when my websites did not load properly the first time I used it, I have stopped using IE7 since then. I was not able to evaluate very well the performance of IE7 because of my immediate dismay. I hope IE8 Beta 2 will not replicate the same flaws in IE7.

According to wikipedia and Microsoft, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support are its priorities for IE8, along with significantly better support of web standards than its predecessor. As a result of better standards compliance, IE8 will break compatibility with web pages that were designed around the bugs and quirks of previous versions. To soften the impact of these compatibility issues, IE8 will enable web designers to turn off all breaking changes in IE8. There are three modes that IE8 can render, named, “Quirks,” “Strict,” and “Standard.” When there is an old DOCTYPE or when there is no DOCTYPE, IE renders it like IE5 would (quirks mode). When a special meta element or its corresponding HTTP header is included in a web page, IE8 will render that page like IE7 would (strict mode). Users can switch between the three modes with a few clicks and then restarting Internet Explorer.

As an internet user and webmaster, I sincerely hope Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) can exploit the current weaknesses in the latest release of Firefox (3.0.1) which, up to now, is giving me a terrible headache. If Microsoft can capitalize on these wekanesses, then it might take the lead once more as the most dominant web browser in the market like it used to be.

Other features (in summary) of Internet Explorer as are follows:

  • Frame Process Merging
  • More tab processes
  • Virtual tabs
  • Automatic Crash Recovery
  • Windows Error Reporting (Dr. Watson, usual characteristic of Windows)

I’m going to test Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 in the next few days to see if it has what it takes to beat Firefox in security and privacy. What I didn’t like about Internet Explorer 7 was its failure to load my web pages successfully. I hope with the new Internet Explorer 8, this weakness has been overcome.

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4 Responses to “Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Features: Will IE8 Beat IE7 in Security and Privacy?”

  1. Firefox fan on August 30th, 2008 12:08 pm

    I will still use Firefox no matter what. Like you I’ve had terrible experiences with IE7 where it won’t open web pages successfully. I’ve developed a bias against Internet Explorer 7 or even the latest release, Internet Explorer 8. :-(

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