IE 8 Beta 2: Rolled Back

I've had to roll back IE 8 Beta 2 :-(

I couldn't work out how to adjust the security enough to make our menus work in our own application, and also our intranet menus weren't working either. Looks like I'll have to have a look at the UserAgent string to fix that.

So I'm back on IE7, which I love.

IE8 Beta 2: First Thoughts

IE8 Beta 2 is available from http://www.microsoft.com/ie.

I installed it today - haven't given it much of a workout yet but here are some first thoughts.

Standards mode by default is interesting, I think I'm going to see some odd result over the next few weeks.
I love that items in the Address Bar history can now be individually removed, the drawback with this is where they've put the button. It'sright on the right-hand edge of the dropdown area, which means if you drop it down from the arrow, it's then far too easy to click on a url and delete it instead of going to it. More usability research required here Microsoft!
Looks like security has been bumped up a bit again, which as a general concept I approve of. However it looks like it's broken our scriptlet-based menu and I haven't found how to turn the security down enough to resurrect it yet :-(