I prefer Firefox and Safari as my browser, but I thought I would try out Internet Explorer 8 after installing Windows 7 RC. At first glance, the IE8 Accelerators look pretty cool. I browsed over to the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group website, selected the Microsoft Office in Tampa address where we have our meetings, and chose the Map with Live Search Accelerator to see a cool map of the location:
Very cool. Got a nice map of where we have our meetings without leaving the page.
Unfortunately, I tried the Weather.com IE8 Accelerator and it didn't work for me very well. When I highlighted the zip code on the website and chose the Weather.com Accelerator I couldn't actually see the weather for the area. All I saw was the top part of the page and I couldn't find anyway to resize or scroll the page to actually see the weather.
Could have been a user error as I didn't stick around long enough to solve the problem. The idea of Accelerators is pretty cool, however.
Learn more about IE8 here. Check out some of the Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators here.
You may want to Download Windows 7 RC as well as Download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, too.
David Hayden