Quote:
Internet Explorer 8 was released on March 19, 2009. It had been in development since August 2007 at the latest.[26] On March 5, 2008, the first public beta (Beta 1) was released to the general public.[27] On August 27, 2008, the second public beta (Beta 2) was released.[28] It supports Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 on both 32-bit as well as 64-bit architectures.[29]
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) RC1 was released on January 26, 2009. Internet Explorer 8 "Final" was released on March 19, 2009. Security, ease of use, and improvements in RSS, CSS, and Ajax support are Microsoft's priorities for IE8.[30][31] It includes much stricter compliance with web standards, including a planned full Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 compliance for the release version.[32] All these changes allow Internet Explorer 8 to pass the Acid2 test.[33] However, to prevent compatibility issues, IE8 also includes the IE7 rendering behavior. Sites that expect IE7 quirks can disable IE8's breaking changes by including a meta element in the HEAD section of the HTML ********. IE8 also includes numerous improvements to Java****** support as well as performance improvements[32], although it still does not pass the Acid3 test, with version 8.0 scoring 20/100. It includes support for Accelerators - which allow supported web applications to be invoked without explicitly navigating to them - and WebSlices - which allows portions of page to be subscribed to and monitored from a redesigned Favorites Bar.[32] Other features include InPrivate privacy features, and SmartScreen phishing filter.
http://www.adrive.us/?rbzntz2792