This weekend I got the chance to speak about IE8 and the future (the next version IE9) in a different event from the ones I’m used to speak, MediaCampAthens. MediaCampAthens intends to bring together new media enthusiasts, explorers and professionals to share the current state and their visions for the future of the web, arts, new media, interactive advertising and marketing throughout one day. MediaCampAthens hopes to unlock the potential of new opportunities within the new media industry in Athens. Topics may include - but are not limited to – Web 2.0, entrepreneurship,...

A few months back I’ve started working with Giorgio Sardo on a Facebook IE8 Web Slice. In fact there were a few people that already were aware of that and have been bugging me for the download link ;-) since my TechEd 2009 interview and my IE8 talk at Microsoft Dev Days where I’ve shown just a glimpse of it. Well your wait is over, yesterday Microsoft officially released a set of very useful IE8 addons that target Facebook at the IE addons site that include the Facebook Web Slice. I can’t...

Wow these are great news, I’m going to participate at TechEd Online TechTalk series this year. I’ m going to be interviewed be Giorgio Sardo on how to build an IE8 Web Slice. The official description of the talk is Are you interested to light up your site on IE8? The MVP Konstantinos Pantos will share his experience building a web slice; we will also talk about some handy tip and trick for building compelling accelerators and visual search providers for Internet Explorer 8. Pretty excited about that, can’t wait…

Just a few days after Microsoft released IE8 Goggle retaliated by releasing their browser, Chrome. After installing it my first impressions are: Extremely clean and streamlined UI Nice source view and developer helpers Nice download manager Extremely fast page loading Great JavaScript performance What's missing (in my opinion): Grouped tab browsing Web Slices Accelerators To conclude, I thing IE8 is a more feature complete browser according to my standards and although it's beta has more rendering problems than chrome has at the moment, I'm sticking to IE as my default browser. UPDATE: It doesn't support Silverlight...

I don't remember this happening yesterday, but once I've started browsing with IE8 today I quickly discovered that I wasn't able to open links in a new tab or window. Selecting open in new tab from the right-click context menu when clicking on a link caused a new tab to open with the title 'Connecting...', in the right tab color (tab grouping feature), but there was no address in the URL bar and the page never loaded while the open Link in New Window wasn't doing anything at all. What's more I noticed that Windows Explorer (not IE) was always...

I've been following IE beta program since it's first public release (beta 1) so when I've read a few minutes ago that IE8 beta 2 has been released for public testing I've download it and installed it. Installation completed without any problems and IE8 was up and running in a few minutes. Some of IE cool new features that you'll find in this release are: InPrivate BrowsingKeeps Internet Explorer 8 from adding any sites you visit to Browsing History. Web SlicesAllows you to keep up with changes to the sites you care about most. Once you add a Web...

I like trying new software, so I usually install and try all betas I find interesting. Thus I've downloaded and installed IE8, without no second thoughts, as soon as it was announced at this year's Mix conference. What I haven't thought was that since I had previously installed Safari beta 3 and Firefox 3 beta 3 I would end up not having an RTM browser installed on my machine. And although all of them seem to work in general, they all do have a few bugs and quirks that make me switch from one to another just to access...