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Introduction

The new version of Internet explorer IE 8 Beta2 providing some cool features like Web slices, Accelerators, Ajax Navigation and Developer tools. More you can find at IE 8 Beta 2 features for Developers.

Web slices in IE 8

In order to have your favorite sites up to date on your favorites is really time consuming. IE 8 brings you web slices  through which you can keep your favorite web sites up to date.

It tracks the web site that you added to the web slices. A flash will appear when ever a update is in the site.

Subscribing to the available web slices in the web site is as simple as adding the sites to the favorites.

Accelerators in IE 8

using Accelerators you can gain access to your favorite online services like searching,shopping and emailing in a click.

You  can search,map,email or translate , share content from any web page that you are currently viewing by just one click. Accelerators are being added to the IE gallery to enhance the user browser experience.

Select the content on the web page that you are browsing and right click on it Accelerator icon will appear as shown above with a set of options like email,map and Blog the text just by a click.

Adding Accelerators to your browser

You can add more accelerators to the browser by clicking on the Accelerator icon on the web page then find more accelerators the say add it will added to your favorite accelerators.

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Introduction

IE 8 Beta 2 provided the decent features to the  designers and developers community. If you write the code for IE 8 Beta 2 that can run on anywhere.

It means it is allowing developers and designers to develop applications with Interoperability and web standards.

• CSS 2.1 complainer.
• HTML 5.0 standards supported.
• Ajax navigation and enhancements supported. 
• Implementing DOM storage for HTML 5.0

1. IE 8 is different from IE 7 in AJAX enhancements and Navigations

Enables the in place navigation when you are browsing maps for a particular location you may use the zoom option in the maps. Each and every zoom action will be stored in the travel history which is highlighted in oval.

2. DOM Storage in Connectivity events

 

When you are writing BLOG post or checking an e-mail at airport if suddenly connections drops then it prompts you to save the typed data on offline. Prompt is highlighted in the oval.

It also allows you cross domain communication and messaging using HTML standards.

3. More Server Connections for better performance. currently allowing 6 earlier it is 2.

4. Document mode Compatibility- No need to write any code for to render the content which is developed in earlier versions of the Internet Explorer. By placing a simple meta tag instructs the IE 8 to render the earlier browser versions content in right format. So IE8 providing full document compatibility mode.

If at all the content not rendered properly in IE8 beta it suggest through compatibility button in address bar to best view version.

5. IE Developer tools- allows the developer to debug the java script and in place HTML and CSS changes. (Shift + F12 ) is the keyboard short cut for opening the debugger tool.

 

  

The developer tool looks like

You can view the page in different IE versions using the above tool. we can call this feature as site preview.

5. Profiling the web sites-

we can check application performance and bottle necks using above built in profiler.

6. Extending the service integration through web slices and Accelerators.

    Implementing the web slices and Accelerators is easy.

 

You can download the Internet explorer 8 beta 2 for exploring the features.

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