How time flies folks. Not so long ago I was talking about how much we will have to wait for the new version of Internet Exlorer and now…it seems that the first BETA of IE8 is out now. From what I can see, the new version will be fully compliant to CSS 2.1, will resolve all the Interoperability and compatibility problems, a built in Developer bar (which is standard in Firefox from some time) plus some other interesting stuff, like the fact that Internet Explorer 8 Developer Beta uses the Internet Explorer 8 standard mode layout engine by default, but, by clicking on the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button, users can choose when they use the strict mode which supports the Internet Explorer 7 compatible layout engine to retain compatibility with existing sites.
Overall, the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta looks like it’s finally learned something from Firefox, but i think that it will still remain a poor and ugly browser.

Click here to download tne new Internet Explorer 8, BETA.