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Internet Explorer 8
addresses just about all of the major concerns that users and critics
have had with the world’s most used browser. Whether they get answered
in a way you like is another matter.
There are several new and interesting
features. Web Slices lets you save predefined sections of a Web page for
at-a-glance viewing. Instead of going to a traffic Web site for
updates, the latest commuting news comes to you. Similarly, Accelerators
make repetitive tasks one-click behaviors, for instance finding
directions or blogging. InPrivate browsing introduces a cache and
history on-off switch, while related tabs are color-coded and
automatically reorganized as you open them. There’s also tab sandboxing,
which means that when a tab crashes, IE itself won’t, and it even tries
to resurrect the page that crashed.
There’s a greater emphasis on Web
standards and security than before. The SmartScreen and cross-site
scripting filters throw up a red warning page when you’re about to visit
an unsafe site. There’s also domain highlighting, which grays out the
name of the URL you’re looking at except for the domain itself. This
sounds simple, but effectively draws attention to spoofed site URLs.
There’s also a compatibility button so that sites designed specifically
for IE 7 and earlier can still be viewed.
IE 8 lacks a default
“smart” location bar that many other browsers have, but you can search
your history and most visited pages from there. Also, the installation
process still requires a reboot–unimpressive, to say the least.
Drawbacks aside, there’s no reason to not upgrade if you’re an old fan
of IE, and there’s even a few things in IE 8 for new users.
Features
Suggested Sites
This feature is described by Microsoft
as a tool to suggest websites, which is done by the browser sending
information to Microsoft over a secure connection, which keeps the
information and a per-session, uniquely-generated identifier for a short
time.The Suggested Sites feature is turned off by default, and is
disabled when the user is browsing with InPrivate enabled or visiting
SSL-secured, intranet, IP address, or IDN address sites. Potentially
personally-identifiable information such as the user’s IP address and
browser information is sent to Microsoft as an artifact of the HTTPS
protocol. Microsoft has stated that they do not store this information.
The functionality was defended by Microsoft after itworld.com’s Gregg Keizer described it as a “phone home” feature.
InPrivate
A new security mode called InPrivate debuted with IE8,
and consists of two main features: InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate
Filtering. Like similar privacy protection modes in Safari, Firefox 3.5,
and Google Chrome, InPrivate Browsing has been described as a “porn
mode” in various news outlets.
InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8
helps prevent one’s browsing history, temporary Internet files, form
data, cookies, and usernames and passwords from being retained by the
browser, leaving no easily accessible evidence of browsing or search
history. InPrivate Filtering provides users an added level of control
and choice about the information that third party websites can
potentially use to track browsing activity. InPrivate Subscriptions
allow you to augment the capability of InPrivate Blocking by subscribing
to lists of websites to block or allow.
As with other private browsing modes there are ways that information about a browsing session can be recovered.
Accelerators
Accelerators are a form of
selection-based search which allow a user to invoke an online service
from any other page using only the mouse.Actions such as selecting the
text or other objects will give users access to the usable Accelerator
services (such as blogging with the selected text, or viewing a map of a
selected geographical location), which can then be invoked with the
selected object. According to Microsoft, Accelerators eliminate the need
to copy and paste content between web pages. Internet Explorer 8
specifies an XML-based encoding which allows a web application or web
service to be invoked as an Accelerator service. How the service will be
invoked and for what categories of content it will show up is specified
in the XML file.Similarities have been drawn between Accelerators and
the controversial Smart tags feature experimented with in the IE 6 Beta
but withdrawn after criticism (though later included in MS Office).
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