Gateserver Web Design team for New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY) and the Pensylvania (PA) based businesses, annouces that testing on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE 8.0 Beta 2) Web Browser has begun with the release of the public beta 2 of IE 8.0 made available from Microsoft. With IE 8.0, Microsoft aims to achieve improvements on two fronts. One is to support Cascading Style Sheets 2.1 (CSS), the latest version of the standard in IE 8. CSS is a standard technology, the specification of which is overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), for separating the appearance of a Web page from the content. It is the standard supported by all the major browsers.

These improvements will allow Gateserver to provide its clients looking for Web Development, Web Application Development, Social Networking Web Sites, and other Web Company or Web Company Solutions with the ability to create more interactive AJAX and CSS compatable web based experiences.

PRIMARY KEY FEATURES OF THIS RELEASE INCLUDE:

Search Sugestions
Now you can type a search term and see real-time, relevant search suggestions from your chosen search provider and your browsing history. Click on a suggestion at any time to immediately execute the search without having to type the entire word or phrase.

InPrivate Browsing
Sometimes you don't want to leave any trace of specific web browsing activity, such as when checking e-mail at an Internet café or shopping for a gift on a family PC. InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and usernames and passwords from being retained by the browser, leaving no evidence of your browsing or search history.

Accelerators
In the past, you would need to copy the address from the webpage, navigate to another the webpage for a mapping service, and paste in the address. With the "Map with Live Maps" Accelerator in Internet Explorer 8, you can get an in-place view of a map displayed directly on the page.


Web Slices
Using Web Slices, you can keep up with frequently updated sites directly from the Favorites Bar. If a Web Slice is available on a page, a green Web Slices icon will appear in the upper-right hand corner of the browser. You can then easily subscribe and add them to the Favorites Bar or delete Web Slices that are no longer desired.

Smart Screen Filter
Internet Explorer 8's new SmartScreen Filter builds upon our leadership in the detection of phishing sites and now helps protect you against inadvertent installation of malware—or malicious software—which can compromise your data, privacy, and identity while also damaging your computer and valuable data. Today Internet Explorer is detecting over 1 million attempts to visit known phishing sites weekly.

Increased Performace
Internet Explorer 8 includes many performance improvements that contribute to a faster, more responsive web browsing experience in the areas that matter most. Internet Explorer 8 starts quickly, loads pages fast and instantly gets you started on what you want to do next with a powerful new tab page.

Compatability View
Some websites may not yet be ready for Internet Explorer 8. Click the Compatibility View toolbar button to display the website as viewed in Internet Explorer 7, which will correct display problems like misaligned text, images, or text boxes. This option is on a per site basis and all other sites will continue to display with Internet Explorer 8 functionality

Domain Highlighting
Domain Highlighting lets you more easily interpret web addresses (URLs) to help you avoid deceptive and phishing sites that attempt to trick you with misleading addresses. It does this by highlighting the domain name in the address bar in black, with the remainder of the URL string in gray, making for easier identification of the sites true identity.

For more information and Specifics for Microsoft Internet Explorer Please visit:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/default.mspx