A manager from Microsoft's technical support team said the company plans to launch IE8 Beta 2 software before the end of October this year. The manager also warned that websites may be in danger of being "blocked" when previewing new browsers, and that website programmers should add new compatibility tags to their websites.
Nick MacKechnie, senior manager of Microsoft New Zealand operations, wrote in a blog earlier this week that in order to encourage webmasters to adopt IE8 on a wider scale, we will release IE8 Beta 2 software to all customers in the third quarter of this year. Microsoft launched the IE7 browser in 2006. About three months ago, the company released the first beta version of the successor to IE7. Since then, Microsoft has not provided details about the target users of the second preview version, but only regularly disclosed IE8 on the company's blog. Development progress text messages and other information about the new browser.
MacKechnie also told webmasters and website operators that when viewing IE8 Beta 2 software, their websites may be at risk of not being able to fully display the new browser. Compatibility tags need to be added to the HTML code of their website. The new tags can be applied to all basic web pages or more, instructing IE8 to display what IE must display.
In early March this year, Microsoft stated that the IE8 browser would display web content in compliance with standards by default, rather than emphasizing compatibility with IE7. This is an approach that many website developers strive for. MacKechnie pointed out that this default setting of the IE8 browser may cause previous versions of IE to display different written content compared to the content intended to be displayed. The industry calls on website owners to ensure that their content continues to be displayed seamlessly in IE8.
According to the latest data provided by Net Applications, a network traffic research organization, the first beta version of IE8 has not been widely adopted. Among all browsers used last month, only 0.2% of computers used the first beta version of IE8. In contrast, IE7 maintains the first place with a share of 45.9. The first beta version of Microsoft IE8 can run XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 systems, and users can download it from Microsoft's website.