internet explorer 8.00.6001.18702 / 9.0 platform preview 4 1.9.7916.6000

Publisher's Review:
Internet Explorer 8 has been designed to make everyday tasks easier, provide dynamic security protection and improve the development platform and manageability. End user improvements include a streamlined interface, tabbed browsing, printing advances, improved search functionality, instant feeds (RSS), dynamic security protection, and more.

IE8 provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds, and much more. It also provides security through a robust new architecture, security features that help defend against malicious software, and new ways to better protect against the theft of personal data from fraudulent websites. It has improved support for cascading style sheets, a rich RSS feeds platform, and robust tools for deploying and managing Internet Explorer 8 in large enterprise environments.

IE Bar brightens your Internet Explorer with colorful images & enhances your surfing experience with Smart Buttons! with Pop-Up Killer and also clears recently visited URLs and Internet Cache.

Changelog:
(Internet Explorer version 9.0 platform preview 2 build 1.9.7766.6000)
Features Available:
- IE9 User Agent String
- getElementsByClassName
- characterSet
- CSS3 Media Queries
- HTML5 Events
- DOMContentLoaded
- DOM Core
- DocumentType, ProcessingInstruction, createDocument
- DOM Traversal
- DOM L3 Events
- DOMAttrModified, Composition events

Features Partially Implemented:
- DataURI
- Support in script source

Developer Tools Features Available:
- User Agent String Picker
- A new tool that can be used to change the user agent string that IE sends with every request. The tool comes with some built in presets and new custom user agent strings can be added.
- Console Tab
- The console window is now a full tab and has been expanded to include the logging of diagnostic information from IE.
- Network inspection improvements
- Shortened URL
- Color coding for errors
- Scaling units (eg. 500 ms becomes 0.5 s)