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After the release of beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft has promised its users and developers a new and interesting experience of Internet browsing. You can now test the added security feature of IE 8 and its special functions which are designed to deliver web content more useably.
Since the browser is new and it is from Microsoft, so everyone is suspecting its compatibility and sustainability. The browser is also suspected to be useful for visitor tracking systems and other add-ons. It may come up with many headaches for webmasters to track their site usage and other statistics.
Unlike IE6, IE8 is being said to be more supportive to web standards, and expected to resolve codes more rationally. Previously this had been a major issue for developers with the previous versions of IE. This is certainly a good move by Microsoft, but it is another fact that web pages which are much optimised for IE6 and IE7 may not perform consistently well in the new version. Though it is said to be most compatible browser with web resolution factors, it is still to be verified.
Microsoft is also promising its users that web pages optimized for the previous versions of IE, will display well in this new version. I don’t know how this can be possible, while resolving issues with older versions, to understand previous versions. Depicting it to be the most web standards-compliant browser, the software giant is clarifying IE8 not to be compatible for many websites.
Microsoft decided to render the compatibility problems to the end users. They explained a Compatibility View button which switches the compatibility mode of the browser to that of IE6 or IE7. So if your users want, they can carry on viewing your site in older versions. Now this being a feature also indicates that Microsoft will never be able to erase their famous name for browser incompatibility. Since I wonder how much of the users will be interested in switching the compatibility of their browsers as they get any problem with the site. Don’t you think that they will prefer to have a more compatible browser, than a switching machine?
The new privacy standards in IE8 again are going to have many problems for the webmasters with security programs. As the new security features disables many easy browser attacks, also deactivates many security enhancements. So this so called feature of IE8 is going to be a double-edged sword.
This new version has now implemented an ‘InPrivate’ mode concept which will prevent cookies, history and other data from being saved in the browser, deactivating your trace to the sites you visit. So if you are accessing some important information from outside, be sure to be on the InPrivate mode on IE8. When you are in InPrivate mode, your sent information is not shared with third-party web sites without your permission.
So let’s see how much percentage of web users it is going to get in its name. But users still should be aware of the browser they are using, on whatever sites they are.

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