I just caught this over at David Naylor’s blog:  Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for developers is now available to download.  The seven main points the IEBlog had to share with news of the release were:

  1. Our goal is to deliver complete, full CSS 2.1 support in the final IE8 product.
  2. We’ve contributed over 700 test cases to the W3C CSS working group.
  3. We’ve delivered better scripting performance.
  4. We’ve started delivering support for HTML5.
  5. We’ve delivered the first installment of great, built-in developer tools.
  6. We’ve delivered a better way for web services to integrate into the user’s workflow.
  7. We’ve delivered a better way for web services to enable their users to keep an eye on interesting parts of a webpage within the browser.

I’ve just downloaded the beta and am in the process of installing it.  I’ll likely have more feedback later.  If you’re interested in trying it out, head on over to the download page.

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