The second beta of Internet Explorer was unveiled in the United States in August 2008. Four months later, Microsoft is about to launch a pre-final (release candidate) browser. Indeed, interviewed by the magazine Eweek, Dean Hachamovitch, product manager at Micrososoft saying: "If I had to think of a cutline then I would say: 'developers, start your engines!".
Mr. Hachamovitch regretted that some elements present in Internet Explorer do not receive much promotion: "IE8 integrates these superb development tools directly into the browser. The development kit Internet Explorer 8 allows you to edit a site on the fly directly from the browser by activating or deactivating certain elements of its source code.
Also, with this new browser, the Redmond firm promises better support for web standards. Indeed, the product manager said: "Microsoft has performed tests in 2500 with the W3C validator to ensure good compatibility with CSS 2.1, and the RC1 we conduct new 1000".
Certainly, with a market share of 69.77%, Internet Explorer heavily dominates the browser market but the alternative products such Firefox, Opera, Safari or Chrome attract each day a little more users. IE8 change does it give? Not sure, because Ben Galbraith, one of the co-directors of the laboratory of the Mozilla developers Eweek explains that the big "disappointment is the JavaScript engine [...] Firefox, Safari, Chrome, each displays a [...] best JavaScript engine IE8 will have little improvement in terms of speed. "
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