Developer Information Index for Internet Explorer 8

These Release Notes give you information about installing Internet Explorer 8 and contain information about known issues and possible workarounds for those issues.

Make your Web site or application compatible with Internet Explorer.

Get coding with help from the MSDN Library documentation for Internet Explorer 8

Introduction to the new developer tools for IE8.  This entry describes the new tools that provide an integrated and simple-to-use visual interface to the platform, enabling fast experimentation.

Discussion of the IE Beta 2 enhancements and improvements of the scripting engine, the script debugger and the new script profiler.

A discussion of the many facets of browser performance measurement and the performance improvements incorporated into IE8 Beta 2

The DEP/NX memory protection feature helps foil attacks by preventing code from running in memory that is marked non-executable.  This feature is enabled by default in Internet Explorer 8 on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 and later.

The IE7 Phishing Filter feature blocks over a million phishing attacks weekly.  IE8 builds on this capability with the new SmartScreen® Filter, a replacement that improves upon the Phishing Filter in a number of important ways.

An overview of the extensive security features and improvements incorporated into IE8

A short discussion with links to sources of information on properly securing this capability

IE8 includes improvements to Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8’s new, more standards-compliant defaults. This blog post describes the technical background and how this new functionality works.

Discusses the 2,524 new test cases provided to W3C for inclusion into the CSS 2.1 test suite.

Taken from broken site reports, a discussion of some of the differences you’ll encounter when migrating from IE7 to IE8.

Many commonly used applications and Windows system components depend on the MSIE WebBrowser control to render web pages from within their program.  IE8 renders pages running within instances of the WebBrowser control in IE7 Standards Mode by default.

A discussion of the updated User-Agent String in IE8.

This article provides an overview of HTML-5.0–compliant cross-document messaging in Internet Explorer 8.

Internet Explorer 8, as of Beta 2, offers native JSON parsing and serialization. This new native JSON functionality enables Internet Explorer 8 aware AJAX applications to run both faster and safer.

This article describes the support for the various Cascading Style Sheet features and compares support across the Internet Explorer releases.

CSS expressions are no longer supported in IE8 standards mode. This post describes the feature and provides a few more details about that decision.

A brief description of IE8’s default Layout mode

Describes the IP new UI features that improve upon the browser’s accessibility.

With Activities you can access services from any webpage.  WebSlices bring your favorite pieces of the web with you. WebSlices are portions of a webpage that you can subscribe to and view updates directly from the Favorites bar.  This posting provides a short summary and examples of these new IE8 features.