Internet Explorer 8回顧

張貼在2008年8月25日在5:41上午

「誰關心？」我聽見您說，「正義用途Firefox」

很好，無論哪裡您的瀏覽器忠誠說謊， IE8仍然是非常重要發行，并且開發商必須知道什麼期望從這個新的瀏覽器。

當前IE beta是相當不穩定的，幾乎不能再用，因此我真正地不會推薦給它旋轉為了興趣的緣故。以下指南是什麼您能期望從最終版本。

研究此我驚奇了關於用下Internet Explorer被做的變動的數量。我猜測我習慣了遞增發放從多數開發商，或許或者給瀏覽器根本上帶來新的很少…的Firefox 3發行很大地改進了現有的表現和改進的功能。

實際上，在我之前，這一個大模型的圖像為IE使用新的辦公室絲帶接口。放棄了這，但看想法開發商戲耍與是有趣的：

用戶界面

我不知道多麼恰當這將運作，但是我認為我是高興的它被拒绝了。偉大，雖然絲帶是為應用像MS辦公室，為了瀏覽小和sleak好是。

如此在beta 1您不會發現在UI上的許多變化，但是您能盼望幾更多為最後的發行出現，想法是垂直保留航海和工具欄作為`稀薄』儘可能; 某處在120個映像點標記附近。

另外菜單和接口一少許customisable，現有的工具的再調整為更好的曝光的，并且熱忱的Firefox樣式添加物連接。

標準

可以有沒什麼令人沮喪對網開發商然後十字架瀏覽器支持。我在所謂的「瀏覽器不進入細節打仗」或Internet Explorer補湊標準支持。如果您不然後Wikipedia是開始的一個巨大地方您知道所有此。

Internet Explorer 8是微軟的第一真正的企圖為完全標準支持。這可能有路線起因巨大的問題與對IE6和7編碼的頁，因此微軟在他們的站點使成為可能為了網開發商能安置階標記，因此IE8瀏覽器在IE7方式下顯示站點。

這是在IE8上的唯一最重要的變化，并且一个您大概不會平衡通知，如果您不是開發商。期待一些騷亂橫跨它將安定的網，網頁殘破的，但以時間。

從 IE Blog ：

與CSS 2.1實施平行在即將來臨beta， IE測試隊開發判例案件反對 CSS 2.1規格. 今天我們是愉快宣佈我們遞交了另外 2524個多判例案件對W3C為包括到裡 CSS 2.1測試程序 . 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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