IE 8.0 Beta2 is on !!!

Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta2. Its more of a combination of features of Safari and Firefox, Some of the features which the beta version has is the Inpage search which is more like the safari inpage search. The new explorer has a DOM inspector, a JavaScript profiler, a color picker and ruler, options to outline objects, disable CSS and validate web pages. The New IE is developed on the new standards of the world wide web.

The new IE concentrates on AJAX enhancements,CSS and Support for data URI and one more feature that is added in IE 8 is that we dont need to view the source of the same old notepad software where the syntax are not highlighted, however the new browser has a inliner editor which displays the HTML source code with all the highlights of syntax.

Interms of security where Micorosoft always has a concern the browsing history,cookies,form data,usernam,password can be made not to be stored in the browser, It also blocks adult sites this feature is called Inprivate Browsing This can be set by navigating to Safety -> InPrivate browsing.

Finally Google maps and Gmail works fine in IE,

I'm sure lot of people will start using IE more often now, more of open source features is really drawing people to use IE, All the best to the microsoft team and hope to see IE 8 to be another successful product from Microsoft.