• COMENTARIO

Internet Explorer Beta 1 es un desarrollador de vista previa para los diseñadores y desarrolladores para ayudar a preparar sus sitios web para el lanzamiento de Internet Explorer 8. Algunas de las nuevas características diseñadas para los desarrolladores incluir una barra de herramientas de desarrollador y la mejora de la interoperabilidad y compatibilidad.

Internet Explorer 8 está diseñado para funcionar en el modo normal de esta casilla. Sin embargo, Microsoft proporciona un método para que los usuarios navegar por Internet de una manera similar a Internet Explorer 7 usando el Internet Explorer 7 emular botón en el cromo.
La Web a su servicio

Internet Explorer 8 se llevará a la web de la experiencia más allá de la página. Internet Explorer 8 introduce un nuevo camino a la perfección la mejor experiencia de la web si usted es un desarrollador web de la escritura a un usuario o de las normas de descubrir un nuevo servicio en línea. Sé uno de los primeros desarrolladores de aprovechar las mejoras en Internet Explorer 8 para sus sitios web y aplicaciones.

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• DATOS DE LA DESCARGA

• LENGUAJE : Ingles
• FORMATO : EXE
• TAMAÑO : 14.4 MB Version XP, 11.0 MB Version Vista
• ENLACES DE DESCARGA: Directos de Microsoft

• ENLACES DE DESCARGA

Para Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=1a2e3ddd-b38b-439d-bba7-f179a5d3ecaf&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f7%2fe%2f8%2f7e88c69b-77d2-4fd7-b1eb-12c6d89ecc93%2fIE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

Para Windows Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=c3c6e8c1-bd91-490b-86f5-f3652dd691de&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2fd%2f4%2f3%2fd43f8ad4-3267-4c7a-8515-11557980357e%2fIE8-WindowsVista-x86-ENU.exe

Mas Informacion:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx

Firebug Extension a very effective tool to debug HTML, CSS and Javascript for Mozill Firefox. No web developer can do his/her job better without this tool. Now if you wanted to fix UI for the latest Mozilla Firefox 3 then you will get some questions bubbling on your mind like,

Can we use firebug extension to fix User Interface of web pages on new Mozilla firefox 3?
How to install firebug on Mozilla firefox 3 beta 5?
And etc.

Answers are,

Yes, you can use firebug extension even though it has not yet come up with its version for Mozilla Firefox 3.
Steps to install firebug for Mozilla Firefox:

1) Type the following link on your IE browser address bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=firebug&cat=all
Note: If you use mozilla firefox 3 latest version to download the extension you will see a text saying “This add-on is for older versions of Firefox” because its made for this latest version.

2) So use ie browser click download button from the above linked page to download firebug-1.05-fx+fl.xpi and save it to your local hard disc.

3) Change firebug-1.05-fx+fl.xpi to firebug-1.05-fx+fl.zip to open the zip file.

4) Open install.rdf file by double clicking on it (notepad may open) and now you can change the browser version 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 after from the rdf file code as mentioned below,
Replace the code and save
from “<em:maxVersion>2.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>” to “<em:maxVersion>3.0.0.*</em:maxVersion>”

- Codes depict the maximum support by firebug extension for Mozilla Firfox browser.

5) Change firebug-1.05-fx+fl.zip file extension to firebug-1.05-fx+fl.xpi and copy it to your local hard disc. Example path: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extensions.

That’s it you are done with it. You have got that working extension for your new Mozill Firefox 3 browser.
Now just close your firefox 3 browser and reopen the browser. You will get Add on browser pop-up window to install that firebug xpi file as add-on to your browser.

I hope your font end development will deserve super success. All best.
Any comments? Please do reply to the post.

Hey folks, I have another approach that could help to develop web pages compatible for all the different browsers like IE 8 Beta 1, Mozilla Fireforx 3 Beta 5 , Firefox 2.

The novel approach is about get a additional CPU Box which will have Firefox 3 and IE 8 installed and could be connected by RDP (Remote Desktop) from your main CPU Box. The Main CPU box could have some older version of firefox and ie browsers. By sharing /hosting developing web pages, we could test and develop pages with RDP connection.
I hope this approach could be more useful than my first post about an approach to develop and test pages for multiple IE and Firefox browser version.

All new coming posts will be related to UI fixes and workarounds for IE 8 and Firefox 3 till every one gets hands on with these latest browsers behaviors.

<Reply to Rafi Ali Khan’s Comments: I will have posts detailed with snapshots when it’s required to make the context clear as per your advice. Thanks.>

Hey Folks! I have an approach to develop and test web pages on IE 8 and also with other browsers like firefox 3 for web application at a same time. Normally we do use multiple IE tool to develop pages for all the IE browsers versions till IE 6 when you have IE7 as primary browser. Installing IE8 Beta 1 will be having a button to switch to IE 7. But you may not get an option to work on multiple firefox browsers versions at the same time.

To work on all the browsers like IE6, IE7, IE8 Beta1, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.0.1, Firefox 3 beta 4 you will need one more CPU box along with your existing. Using a controller you can switch two CPUs on your single monitor to develop pages for your entire browsers by installing IE6, IE7, IE8 Beta1 and Firefox 1.5 to a CPU and Firefox 3 beta 4 with the other one.

This is my approach…If you have any other approach do reply to this post, that would be appreciated. Thanks.

Internet Explorer 8 provides an simplidied programming model for AJAX development that spans browser, webpage, and server interaction.
Web developer can easilly build more functional webpages with better end-user experiences as well as performance.

Some of the AJAX Improvements in IE8 are explained below:

1. AJAX Navigation: This enables end-users to navigate back and forth without leaving the AJAX application and without performing a traditional full navigation.
2. DOM Storage: This is a simple-to-use method for storing and retrieving strings of key/value pair data in cache. This provides faster access and reduces the effect of network latencies.
3. Connectivity events allow websites to check when the user is connected to the network and receive notification of connectivity changes.
4. Six connections per host instead of two, which allows parallel downloads and in turn improved performance.
5. Cross-domain communication is an integral part of AJAX development and mashup Web applications. In IE8 Cross-domain Request(XDR) and Cross-document Messaging(XDM) API’s are provided for this purpose only.

In short, all these improves the AJAX Usage for developers as well as for end-users to move towards a better web experience with AJAX.

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.
Detailed Information & Example

Developer Tools
Internet Explorer 8 includes tools for Web developers to debug their sites efficiently from Internet Explorer.
Developers can immediately debug a site’s HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from within IE8, in stead of switching between IE and separate development environment.

Versioning and IE Modes
Versioning and rendering modes in IE8 allows it to remain compatible with current web content.
Now IE8 has three different Layout modes.
1) Quirks provides backwards compatibility with IE5.
2) IE7 Standards provides backwards compatibility with IE7 JavaScript/layout etc.
3) IE8 Standards includes latest features like CSS 2.1 compliant layout engine, DOM/HTML breaking changes etc.

Versioning and Cross-document Interaction
Internet Explorer 8 introduces the IE8 standards mode by default. This allows the Web designers to use the latest rendering features in IE8.
In addition to the layout changes, IE8 standards mode also affects the behavior of scripted APIs (DOM).

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.

Detailed Information & Example

In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation(i.e. information like fonts, colors, spacing, positioning etc.) of a web document. In today’s highly visual web environment css is a very important aspect to look into.
Another important use of css is to separate data part from the visual part/style in html or other markup languages.

Now, the W3C CSS working group has decided the final specifications for CSS v2.1.
The idea is to enable web developers to write their pages once in such a way that it can be rendered properly in many browsers.

The new Web Developer Toolbar included with Internet Explorer 8 will help in this endeavor. Internet Explorer 8 supports the latest feature set as defined in the specification.

While one of Internet Explorer 8’s main goals is CSS 2.1 compliance, it is also looking forward towards CSS3. CSS3 is the next generation of Cascading Style Sheets. CSS 2.1 consists of one single document, whereas the CSS3 specification is broken down into different modules to make clear specifications and implementations of different other features.

Another aspect of CSS2.1 which is well-implemented in IE8 is Data URI Support.
Data URIs offer the web developers to embed small external resources (like CSS files or images) directly into a URL on a webpage. The primary use for data URIs is the encapsulation of a binary file inside an URL (a stylesheet or image).
Internet Explorer 8’s data URI implementation attempts to balance security with functionality.

Internet Explorer 8 also includes several Printing Improvements.
IE8 implements all CSS 2.1 pagination recommendations, and provide authors with more control and functionality in the print medium.

With IE8 support has been added for some extra printing constructs e.g. @page rule, Page-break-inside property, windows and orphans property etc.
These improvements give developers more control on content pagination.

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.

Detailed Information & Example

In IE8 a new feature named “WebSlices” is added for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to the content directly within a web page.

Using WebSlice, users/clients can subscribe to get updates and notify changes to the user.
Even users can add the discovered WebSlices within a webpage to their Favorites bar.

Now, how to design it?
WebSlices are enabled by adding HTML annotations directly to the webpage.
The basic properties of WebSlice are the WebSlice container, Entry Title, and Entry Content.

WebSlice container represents the entire WebSlice containing the title, description, and other WebSlice properties and it is required property.

Entry Title is the title section of the Webslice and there can be multiple instances of Titles. This is also a required property.

Entry Content is an optional property, representing the content part of WebSlice and if blank, passed as an empty string.

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.

Detailed Information & Example

Sneaky Microsoft. At MIX08, Microsoft’s Web designer and developer conference, the company unveiled the beta release of Internet Explorer 8, plus some other boring stuff like Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2.

Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the Internet Explorer team, demonstrated the latest version of the world’s crappiest most popular browser.

In Beta 1, it allegedly delivers significantly improved standards support and developer platform investments with enhanced user experiences. MS suits also said it increases interoperability, offers developers better predictability when designing sites, and will feature full support for cascading style sheet (CSS) 2.1 at release to manufacturing.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 includes integrated developer tools to quickly debug HTML, CSS and scripts in a visual environment. Two new features, Activities and WebSlices, will enable developers to reach beyond the page and introduce news ways for users to stay connected to the content and services of their choice. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download.

Now that we have installed the new Internet Explorer 8 beta 1, developers need to make their site IE8 compatible.

There are several designer aspects to be taken care of in this new version. Let us take the points one by one to discuss this further.

First we will look into Activities.

Activities

Activities are contextual menu options which quickly access a service from any Web page. Users typically copy and paste from one Web page to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that advertises Activities.

Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: “look up” of information within a Web page, and “send” of Web content to a Web application. e.g. look up – You are in a blog where the users address is mentioned. Right click and View on Live maps and it will show a small window containing the map of the loacation. send – An user reads an interesting article and wants to digg it or add to his blog.

Activities are described using an XML file providing an interface to the browser to communicate with the service through URL templates.

More discussion on this and an example can be found at the Microsoft Website mentioned below.

Detailed Information & Example

Today Microsoft has launched the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 version for the public. They mention it as Developer Preview version and for Web developers and Designers only.

According to Microsoft, some of the new features designed for developers include a developer toolbar and improved interoperability and compatibility.

One good thing about this release is they have finally made IE standards compliant by default.

This topic is explained in the Internet Explorer Blog. Quoting from the blog, the reason behind this:

Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do.

We think that acting in accordance with principles is important, and IE8’s default is a demonstration of the interoperability principles in action. While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. As stated above, we think it’s the better choice.

The rest of this blog post provides context around the different modes, the technical challenge, and what it means going forward.

More information about IE8 Beta 1 is available at MS site.

IE8 Beta 1 can be downloaded from the MS site:

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According to eWeek.com,

“With the release this week of the first beta of Internet Explorer 8, we are finally getting a good look at the next step in Microsoft’s Web strategy. And we also can finally start to put the next generation of the Browser Wars into focus with a new version of IE to compare with the recent betas of Mozilla’s forthcoming Firefox 3?. Click here for details.

Tietkone.fi lehti kertoo, että Microsoft on julkaisut täysin uudenlaisen Singularity-käyttöjärjestelmänsä ytimin lähdekoodin vapaasti Internetissä. Koodin lisenssi ei salli kaupallista käyttöä. Aluksi ajattelin, että onko Microsoftin johtoportaaseen iskenyt jokin outo pöpö, mutta kun tarkemmin luin juttua, niin paljastui, että tässä on kyseessä täysin kokeellinen käyttöjärjestelmän ydin eli kun yhteisö tekee kaiken työn uuden käyttöjärjestelmän ytimen ja itse käyttöjärjestelmänkin ympärillä, Microsofti samalla valmistautuu kaivamaan jonkun salaisen pilkun lisenssistä ja siihen vedoten omii koko käyttöjärjestelmän itselleen myyden sitä kohta hyvällä voitolla. Näin ehkä käy, ei sitä koskaan tiedä.  Bill Gates on jo pudonnut rikkaiden luettelossa kaksi pykälää alemmas.

Tietokone.fi kertoo myös, että Microsoft on julkaissut IE 8:sta Beta 1 version (voit ladata sen täältä). Versioon kuuluva activities-toiminto vaikuttaa ihan mielenkiintoiselta, mutta enpä taida betaa asentaa vaikka olenkin jossain määrin innostunut leikkimään selaimien betoilla.

Itse suosittelen erityisesti Opera Internet-selainta, mutta niille, jotka eivät pidä Operan logosta tai jotka kaipaavat enemmän muunneltavuutta yms. sopinee paremmin Mozilla Firefox.

NB! Tässä kirjoitetuksessa sanaa ‘’selain” ei ole käytetty KRP:n tarkoittamassa merkityksessä.

Microsoft has put in place the preparations for Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 ready for Mix 08.
A full features page has been revealed which lists the following additions to Internet Explorer:

• Activities
• WebSlices
• Favorites Bar
• Automatic Crash Recovery
• Improved Phishing Filter

Activities allow users to lookup/send information in a right-click contextual menu, such as retrieving an address map from Windows Live Maps, submitting a story to Digg, sharing a page on Facebook etc. WebSlices allows users to crop a specific area section of a site and bookmark it. Improvements have been made to the phishing filter which continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users’ computer or steal their information.

Perhaps one of the best new features is Automatic Crash Recovery which recovers your tabs if your browser crashes. It is widely expected that Microsoft will release the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 at this years Mix 08 which begins today.

Update: The download is now live and can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, Server 2008/2003

View: Internet Explorer 8 New Features
Download: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1