Released shortly after today's MIX '08 Keynote, a more standards-friendly IE8 beta 1 is now available for download.
Features include:
- Activities - contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any web page.
- Webslices - take "slices" of a web site offline or bookmark.
- Choice of layout engine
- CSS 2.1 compliance
- HTML improvements
- Improved namespace support
- Platform performance improvements
- Developer tools
- Improved Phishing filters
- Domain highlighting