IE8 Partner Build Readme
Wednesday December 10th, 2008

Versions:
  Windows Vista x86 
  Windows Vista x64
  Windows XP x86 
  Windows XP x64
  The builds are only available in English

Changes since Beta 2

The following are changes since Beta 2 that will appear in the IE8 December Partner Build.

Accessibility-ARIA:

  ARIA attribute names containing dashes, such as “aria-checked”, no longer have to be referenced by their camelCased equivalent (ariaChecked) in IE 7 Mode and Quirks Mode. As a consequence of this change, the camelCased syntax no longer exists for these attributes.

For more information regarding ARIA please see W3C’s ARIA Support.

AJAX-XDR:

  XDR now checks Access-Control-Allow-Origin header for specific URLs as well as wildcards.

For more information regarding AJAX, please see Updates for AJAX in IE8 Beta 2 and Better AJAX Development.
 
Developer Tools:

  The Developer Tools now has a menu option to let the user choose the view source app.  In IE7 the only choice was Notepad and in IE8 Beta 2, the built-in viewer was the only choice.  Now users can choose Notepad, built-in viewer, or another application.

For more information please see Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler, Developer Tools in Internet Explorer Beta 2 and Developer Tools in the Readiness Toolkit.

CSS:

  Syntactically valid filter declarations are applied in standards mode, even if unquoted Starting with IE8 Beta 1, the following filter declaration was not applied in standards mode:
 
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80, FinishOpacity=70, Style=2); Instead, IE8 standards mode required the following declaration:

-ms-filter: “progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80,
FinishOpacity=70, Style=2)”;

For web applications supporting both IE7 and earlier as well as IE8 standards mode, this meant maintaining both declarations and possible a third for other browsers in the case of opacity.
 
Starting with IE8 Partner Build, the first declaration above will be applied in standards mode if and only if its syntax is valid. If it is not e.g. the final parenthesis is missing then the declaration will not be applied and our CSS parser fails per the standard.

  CSS style sheet encoding detection complies with CSS 2.1 e.g. including @charset directive, charset attribute on link element etc. 
 
For more information on CSS please see CSS 2.1 Compliance. 
Compatibility View List:

  Check box added in Tools->Compatibility View Settings to receive updates from Microsoft.  At the moment, the functionality of this feature works but our list will not be activated until the next release of IE.

IE8 Partner Build 已經(jīng)發(fā)放給了 Technical Beta 測試者們了，版本號為 8.0.6001.18343。

目前可適用的操作系統(tǒng)（目前只有英文版）：Windows Vista x86，Windows Vista x64，Windows XP x86 和 Windows XP x64。 版本號：IE8 Build 8.0.18343 數(shù)字簽名：12.7

for vista:
http://rapidshare.de/files/41112819/IE8_Partner_Build_-_Windows_Vista_x86__ENU_.rar.html

for xp:
http://rapidshare.de/files/41112848/IE8_Partner_Build_-_Windows_XP_x86__ENU_.rar.html

IE8 Readme:
http://www.rayfile.com/files/720e56a6-c7ed-11dd-9315-0014221b798a/