Tommy Nation

The first Beta version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 has just been released publically.

Improvements include default mode interpreting web pages much more correctly according to W3C standards. A button to “Display as IE7″ is available for debugging.

The big news that MS is touting is something they call Webslices. Essentially Webslices are like RSS feeds - small subscription services, except they can go both ways - output and input. An example of output would be a weather service, while input could be a task manager.

A crash recovery feature is also in place, to recover crashed sessions.

Oh, and it passes the Acid 2 test with flying colors. The Acid 3 test however…

Click here to download the Internet Explorer 8 beta client
(only works on XP SP2, Vista and Server 2003).

PS! I don’t recommend you install this on your main system, as it is beta software and could be unstable.

Robert Scoble had a talk with RJ Owen, Senior Developer at EffectiveUI. He discusses how to create great user experiences for Web apps.

Click here to go to the original post on ScobleShow (new window).

Not long ago, Dustin Diaz posted an updated version of his short and to the point guide on creating and removing HTML / XHTML elements dynamically using JavaScript / ECMAScript. His original guide from 2005 was very popular, but perhaps getting a little outdated …

So, if you’re like me and you’re into this Web 2.0 stuff, it could certainly become a handy quick reference for the future.

I recommend you check out his guide “Add and Remove Elements with JavaScript (reprise)”.