Internet explorer v8



Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any

webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another.

Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within

a webpage or "send" web content to a web application. For example, a user is

interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form

of a "look up" Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-

place view of the map using his favorite map service.
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An example of a "send" Activity is a user reads an interesting article and

wants to blog about a portion of the article. The user can select a portion of

the article and uses the blog Activity. This navigates to the user?s blog site

with the selection already available in the edit field.

Activities are services that the user can install and manage. Users can install

them from the Internet Explorer 8 Service Guide or through any website that

advertises Activities.
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WebSlices

WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by

subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like

feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of

changes.


Internet Explorer 8 Users can discover WebSlices within a webpage and add

them to the Favorites bar, a dedicated row below the Address bar for easy

access to links. Internet Explorer 8 subscribes to the webpage, detects

changes in the WebSlice, and notifies the user of updates. Users can preview

these updates directly from the Favorites bar and click-through to the website

to get more information.
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Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to

their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for

Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to

associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web

content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and

PowerPoint documents.


A user can easily add a link to the Favorites bar by using the Add to Favorites

button and selecting the Add to Favorites Bar option.

Automatic Crash Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows?Internet Explorer? 8

that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event

of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the

Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery

capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users?

browsing sessions.


See Automatic Crash Recovery white paper for more information.


Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn

users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate

site, with the goal of stealing the user?s personal or financial information. For

Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with

a more comprehensive feature called the "Safety Filter."


The Safety Filter continues to block known Phishing sites and now blocks

sites known to contain malicious software that could harm users? computer or

steal their information. Beyond this improved protection, the Safety Filter

operates more quickly than ever before to ensure that users can browse both

safely and quickly.

For IT administrators, new Group Policy options are available to remove the

user-override option and fully block access to known unsafe sites.