Internet Explorer 8.0 beta 1 is now available

Microsoft released IE 8 beta 1, a developer preview for Web designers and developers to help prepare their Web sites for the new version. The new browser includes a developer toolbar for debugging HTML, CSS, and scripts in a visual environment, and comes out with greatly improved interoperability and compatibility.

 

The new version includes:

• Activities, which are contextual services that will provide quick access to external services from any Web page. The feature will look up information related to data on the current page and send content from the current page to another application.
  
• WebSlices, as the name suggests, will enable Web sites to expose portions of their page that users can subscribe to, and bring that content with them on their links bar wherever they are on the Web. Users will be able to receive update notifications when the content changes.