Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Sean Kearney — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:25:03 GMT

Ooooo! If IE8 Beta 2 is a speed boost I WILL have to dive in!

I had Beta 1. I liked a lot of the newer UX with how it would automatically suggest things to do and where to go. I DID find it a little piggy.

Then again, Twhirl doesn't seem to help either... ;)

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Rob Dloing — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:33:56 GMT

You guys need to give the developers a break here. Yeah IE8 uses a lot of resources and so does Chrome but they are beta man! And yeah Chrome uses a lot of resources too.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/03/36TC-browsers_2.html

That said when your PC has 4GB of ram does it really matter if a program uses 300MB ;)

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Rodney Buike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:19:46 GMT

Hey Ross,

I'll agree with you on two points, IE is a little bloated and that is the backwards compatability trade-off and pre-IE8 standards weren't a priority.

That said I fail to see where Chrome is light years ahead of IE8 or FF3. Besides the great V8 JS engine, there isn't anything new and you can be sure the FF and IE teams have been working on better JS support for a while.

One thing I think we can all agree on is that competition is a good thing and this will no doubt have a positive impact on the development of future IE/FF/Opera/Safari/etc... releases.

Rodney Buike

IT Pro Advisor

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Rodney Buike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:15:02 GMT

Hi Gis Bun,

One reason it uses more resources is that the tabs are sandboxed as well. Now not in the same way as Chrome, where each tab is it's own process, but very much the same in the rest. This should allow for much better stability and reduce the chance of a particular page/plugin/script running in one tab from brining down the browser.

Rodney Buike

IT Pro Advisor

Simplifying the task of adding Internet Explorer 8 to your Vista SP1 images

Canadian IT Professionals — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:06:43 GMT

A short while ago, I meet with a friend  who is responsible for the management of a testing lab.

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Ross — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:50:04 GMT

I found the pro-standards comments in the posting absolutely lol-hilarious. IE7's semi-attempt at compliance was barely laudable.

I really like that IE8 doesn't make you wait 60 seconds for a new tab to "connect" to my blank start page. What the heck is it connecting to anyway?

Firefox is still faster (and imho much better) and Google's new Chrome is light-years ahead. Too bad IE carries around so much code bloat.

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Gis Bun — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:25:28 GMT

Would you believe a CRN magazine web site [from a blogger on another site] is already complaining/comparing that IE8 uses up more resources than IE7 or Firefox3. The thing is still in beta. What do you expect?

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Troy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:01:55 GMT

The button is in the address bar, right beside refresh and cancel. Seems fairly intutitive to me.

Loving IE8 so far, very snappy and the new features are very handy.

re: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is out. What does it mean to you as an IT Pro???

Bob Robinson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:19:50 GMT

Big change (in a good way) from Beta 1 - the old Beta did not last more than 1 day before going back to IE7. Now, Beta 2 is FAST!

I am using it on XP Pro SP3 and this Beta 2 has a very good chance at staying on this XP testing machine.

Some Web Sites do need to be viewed in compatibility mode, but just selecting compatibility has allowed full normal viewing so far anayway. The button to select compatibility should be more visible for the non-tech end user to select. It seems to be hiding in the Tool Bar drop down menu.

This is a very very very early comment, now on to finding the rest of the features.

Thanks for the heads up and the resource links.

Bob