Ie8 News & Articles

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," says Internet Explorer, as Microsoft's default Windows web browser regains some of the market share previously lost to its major competitors Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

It seems just a blip in time ago that we were hoping for big things from Microsoft's (news, site) Internet Explorer 8, but two years later, a bigger, better, but nicer-playing replacement is already here.

As the day draws nearer for Google Apps to drop Internet Explorer 6 support (March 1), other companies are following suit.

Atlassian (news, site) comes to the table with the latest release of the Confluence enterprise wiki. Version 3.1's support for OpenSocial Gadgets makes it easy to add new functionality to Confluence and Confluence to other applications.

Helping Microsoft put a little bit of social search goodness in its Internet Explorer 8 must have helped OneRiot (news, site) garner a little more attention.

The real time web search startup has just picked up some Series C financing to the tune of US$ 7 million. The funding was led by OneRiot's current venture capital firms: Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures and Spark Capital.

The plans for this new funding involve continual enhancement of the OneRiot core product, in addition to efforts to support partners like Microsoft and Yahoo who use the OneRiot API.

The OneRiot Hot Web Topics Internet Explorer 8 add-on is an IE8 web slice offering real time web search results on the most discussed topics on the social web.

With over 3 millions users opted in to share their information with OneRiot, they are able to provide the hottest topics currently being discussed via sites like Twitter and Digg. It does this using their PulseRank algorithm which determines the current social buzz on web content mentioned within these social services -- based on their community.

OneRiot real time web search

Obviously OneRiot must be doing something right to get their venture capital firms to cough up more money for development. As they say on their blog, "Yes, we're really happy about this."

With Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) (news, site) now in wide distribution, we thought it a good time to talk about a few ways that with a little bit of applied knowledge you can save some of your valuable time. Come, take a few minutes to tinker with us.

A new partnership that will see DocuLex’s (news, site) Archive Studio integrate enterprise-wide search products developed by dtSearch, will provide enhanced e-mail archiving abilities leveraging security features from the recently launched IE8.

The integration of the two, which sees dtSearch Engine embedded in the WebSearch component of DocuLex’s Archive Studio, will allow users pull mail -- both in-bound and outbound -- from Microsoft’s Exchange Journal mailbox.

Internet Explorer 8 has been officially released. Now it's time to download it and start seeing what it really does to your website or web application. For some, things may go smoothly, for others, not so much. Trouble is, IE8 may be new, but is it already obsolete?

Friday is a good day to have a laugh at Microsoft's expense - don't you think. Thought so.

So they finally decided to get with the compatibility program with Internet Explorer 8. But they may have drug their heels just a little too long and now they are paying the price.

According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft has released an Internet Explorer (IE) 8 incompatibility list. This is a list of websites that do not render probably when IE is run in standards mode. The list has a whopping 2400 websites on it and it is getting updated on a regular basis.

Perhaps what is so amazingly funny (or not so funny, depending on who you talk to) is that the incompatible websites are not your average joe, no one really looks at them anyway, websites. Here's a few examples of the websites that are not compatible:

• microsoft.com
• google.com
• yahoo.com
• wikipedia.org
• flickr.com
• wordpress.com
• adobe.com
• facebook.com
• apple.com
• youtube.com

This is a downloaded a list and there's a version for XP users and a version for Vista users.

The list is used by your IE8 browser to allow you to opt-out of viewing any website on that list in standards mode. There's also a button that allows you to add websites to the list.

Now we understand that IE8 is only out as a Release Candidate, but come on, even their own site doesn't run properly in standards mode?

What exactly did Microsoft do for standards in IE8? Enhancements to the standards include:

• Standards support (CSS/HTML): Data: URIs, the abbr tag, CSS generated content; Display: table CSS properties, fixes for a number of CSS and HTML parsing bugs
• Standards support (DOM) and AJAX : IE8 contains an enhanced and standardized DOM as well as support for AJAX with features like DOM: Storage, Cross Document Messaging (XDM) and the Selectors APIs
• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Specification: IE8 will also support the new ARIA specification from the WCAG. Things like support for ARIA Markup and DHTML Extensions for Accessibility are included.

Want to understand Microsoft's compatibility view better? Read it here.

So while Mozilla fights with its mobile browser and Google brings on Pre-Beta 2 of Chrome, the browser wars rang on. Problem is, no one seems to be fighting on the same battlefield.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is now available for download by the public. Microsoft certainly needs to push IE8 out soon — especially when considering the recent developments within the Web browsing market. The company is touting the premise that IE8 is the most secure, reliable and privacy-aware version of the product to date. Will it be enough to impress the users of other browsers while keeping up with the expectations from current users?

It was about mid-December, just after Opera Software filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft — partly focused on Internet Explorer not following web standards — that Microsoft finally came out and publicly announced their support for key web standards in version 8 of their prolific web browser.

With the recent release of IE8’s first Beta the public can now finally find out for themselves just how well they have done that. What is even more interesting — and perhaps a matter of debate — is that they have done it in such a way as to not “Break the Web.” Or in other words, they plan to deliver IE8 with backwards compatibility by introducing a controversial third operating mode.

The Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC 2005) is in full swing. There’s more news than a body can keep up with, but this is one piece that the CMSWire audience is surely tuned to.

Microsoft has been quiet about MCMS vNext for some time. News has trickled out via blogs and tech conferences, we’re aware of Office 12, Sharepoint and MCMS merging, SharePoint being the future foundation, etc. But now we have some more complete info and (finally) straight from the horse’s mouth.

Its Billy’s turn to put on the mantle of Enterprise Content Management.