Internet Explorer 8

The Internet Explorer 8 ( officially Windows Internet Explorer 8; Abbreviation: IE8 or MSIE8 ) is a version of web browser Internet Explorer from Microsoft. On 15 March 2011 he was replaced by Internet Explorer 9 for Windows 7 and Windows Vista as the current version. According to statistics from October 2010, the IE8 was the most- used browser version in the world.

History of development

On 5 March 2008, Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, a first pre-release version and offered them for download. A scant six months later, the second beta version was presented. The final version was published on 19 March 2009, about a year after the completion of the beta 1, and sets the operating systems Windows XP with SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7 require. Also it runs on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.

Innovations

With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft introduced alongside existing since version 7 RSS support a new technique based on the microformats called Web Slices to track parts of a website, such as news tickers, weather forecasts or auction rates. Other browsers support Web Slices by default.

While the IE8 improved support for web standards compared to previous versions, reached in Acid3 test, however, only 23 of 100 possible points.