Internet Explorer 8回顾

张贴在2008年8月25日在5:41上午

“谁关心？” 我听见您说， “正义用途Firefox”

很好，无论哪里您的浏览器忠诚说谎， IE8仍然是非常重要发行，并且开发商必须知道什么期望从这个新的浏览器。

当前IE beta是相当不稳定的，几乎不能再用，因此我真正地不会推荐给它旋转为了兴趣的缘故。以下指南是什么您能期望从最终版本。

研究此我惊奇了关于用下Internet Explorer被做的变动的数量。我猜测我习惯了递增发放从多数开发商，或许或者给浏览器根本上带来新的很少…的Firefox 3发行很大地改进了现有的表现和改进的功能。

实际上，在我之前，这一个大模型的图象为IE使用新的办公室丝带接口。放弃了这，但看想法开发商戏耍与是有趣的：

用户界面

我不知道多么恰当这将运作，但是我认为我是高兴的它被拒绝了。伟大，虽然丝带是为应用象MS办公室，为了浏览小和sleak好是。

如此在beta 1您不会发现在UI上的许多变化，但是您能盼望几更多为最后的发行出现，想法是垂直保留航海和工具栏作为`稀薄’尽可能; 某处在120个映像点标记附近。

另外菜单和接口一少许customisable，现有的工具的再调整为更好的曝光的，并且热忱的Firefox样式添加物连接。

标准

可以有没什么令人沮丧对网开发商然后十字架浏览器支持。我在所谓的“浏览器不进入细节打仗”或Internet Explorer补凑标准支持。如果您不然后Wikipedia是开始的一个巨大地方您知道所有此。

Internet Explorer 8是微软的第一真正的企图为完全标准支持。这可能有路线起因巨大的问题与对IE6和7编码的页，因此微软在他们的站点使成为可能为了网开发商能安置阶标记，因此IE8浏览器在IE7方式下显示站点。

这是在IE8上的唯一最重要的变化，并且一个您大概不会平衡通知，如果您不是开发商。期待一些骚乱横跨它将安定的网，网页残破的，但以时间。

从 IE Blog ：

与CSS 2.1实施平行在即将来临beta， IE测试队开发判例案件反对 CSS 2.1规格. 今天我们是愉快宣布我们递交了另外 2524个多判例案件对W3C为包括到里 CSS 2.1测试程序 . This brings the test suite much closer to the necessary breadth needed to ensure that web sites will interoperate. These tests are available on the IE Development Forum until they are fully reviewed by the working group and accepted into the official test suite.

Security

A bit less interesting, but even more important is the security changes. Internet Explorer 7 was a major step in terms of security, and IE8 continues that even more so. Key security changes include:

SmartScreen Filter
Essentially the improved Phishing filter of IE7.

Domain Highlighting
Malicious websites often use long domain names to confuse people into thinking they are on a different website. Domain highlighting exposes the domain name, and if IE detects the site is unsafe, turns the whole address bar red to bring a your attention to the fact.

More Secure ActiveX Controls
Further changes have been made to ActiveX to prevent malware being loaded onto a users computer. Even if it is installed by a user it be prevented from installation. Exceptions have been built in for trusted controls such as Microsoft, Adobe and Apple. Data Execution Prevention has also been turned on by default in IE8.

Activities:

Activities are Microsoft’s answer to Firefox’s extensions, although IE can also run extensions. Paul Thurrott explains exactly what these activities features are:

Activities… provide contextual menus on Web pages that can provide additional information via Web services that will lead readers to new locations. The contents of these contextual menus are determined by what’s selected on the page and which Activities are available in the user’s browser. Put another way, the functionality is not provided by the underlying Web site at all. It is instead provided by the browser via this new feature.

On one level, Activities are interesting and useful, as we’ll see in a moment. However, they also allow users to completely bypass whatever facilities the Web site itself has provided. So, for example, you might use the IE 8 Activities feature to find a Yahoo! Map for a selected address on a Web page. But that page may supply its own map, one that you have now chosen to bypass. My suspicion is that this feature will cause the same consternation among Web developers that Smart Tags did seven years ago. What may offset these complaints is that many Activities are now created by Microsoft’s competitors, and many more are sure to come in the days ahead; with Smart Tags, the default tags were all Microsoft-specific, raising privacy and exclusivity concerns.

WebSlices:

Interestingly Webslices where a technology intended for Internet Explorer all the way back in 1996–7. Web Slices are part-widget, part RSS feed. Personally I don’t find it a particularly exciting addition to IE, but it may be different in practice.

Essentially you can take a ‘screenshot’ of a page which then updates dynamically and can be viewed without loading up the whole site again.

Developer Tools and Changes

Aside from standards compatibility IE8 also includes developer tools right into the browser like Firefox does. It has also improved Ajax support, meaning that the navigation buttons can be used be Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to go to the previous task without navigating back to the previous page.

There are also a lot of general performance improvements.

Enterprise Features:

From SuperSite blog:

Add IE8 as part of IT’s Windows Vista image;

Use Group Policy to control how IE8 renders older Web sites;

Improve crash resilience for quicker recovery and minimal disruption; and

Manage and deploy customized versions of IE8 with an enhanced Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK).

As you may have noticed, this release of IE is targeted at developers first and foremost. It’s the browser they’ve been waiting for for years, with full CSS support, accurate HTML reading and standards compatibility.

Many of these changes are not going to be noticed by end users, but they will impact significantly on their experience browsing the web. Hopefully they will be safer, more secure, stability and performing significantly faster.

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