Right after the Mix08 keynote this morning I downloaded the IE8 beta. I’m typing this blog post in the beta browser right now. My thoughts? Don’t download the browser unless you’re really into hard-hat development. There are some new features (activities and slices) that I wanted to try out, so I decided to take the plunge. For me it made sense. But there are plenty of rough edges.
I won’t go into the issues here, because this is a beta build after all, however, I will say that I had to turn off/hide the Google toolbar because when I visited some pages (such as this blog’s WordPress editing tool page) Google would consistently crash IE–or at least that’s what the error dialog said. Things work OK without the Google bar.
Again, I wouldn’t recommend the IE8 beta except if you have a need for it (developer/designer), but I’m glad I took the plunge. I can see already several improvements in the layout engine.
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