Dave Woods - Freelance Web Design Warwickshire

IE8 Release Candidate 1

Microsoft have now made available their first release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 which can now be downloaded.

I’ve not had chance to try it out yet so am unsure as to what has changed since trying out the last beta version but from other that have tried it it seems as though it’s perfectly stable.

Hopefully this signals the official release of IE8 being within the next couple of months and it will be interesting to see what effect this has on the browser market share and how many users from IE6 and IE7 upgrade quickly.

Credit to Microsoft for listening to the development community with regards to how the meta tag should work for it’s rendering model as this should now give every user the ability to upgrade whilst also providing site owners a quick fix should they not have the development resources to make their internal applications compatible with the standards compliant rendering engine.