Hi all web developers and Internet Explorer users :)
As a Windows user I guess most of us are using Windows Internet Explorer during
browsing the web. At least I am using Internet Explorer web browsers more than
any others. I’m now both using the IE7 and IE8 Beta 1.
As Internet Explorer users I know you have at least once meet the following
error message from your web browser.
Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close.
That is not a surprise for me when I meet this error. But each time I got this
warning I know I will lose some of my work or at least I had to search again the
web page I had found difficult. Some times I keep a valuable site or web page
for me on the browser open, but again lose it just because in an other tab
something caused an error and lose all the web pages in all the internet
explorer instances on the computer. I hate this.
Yesterday I was reading the Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers:
Technology Overview documentation for the first beta release of IE8.
I remember I was glad to read notes about Crash Recovery. In the overview
documentation it is stated that a crash in one browser does not cause the entire
browser to crash. This is nice since this protects you to lose all the pages on
that browser at the moment of the error has occured. Also the notes about the
crash recovery continues with the following lines : “the user is automatically
returned to the page they were browsing before the crash.” This is also the
second good news about the Intenet Explorer enhancements with Windows Internet
Explorer Beta 1.
Actually, I’m sharing this information with you since just a few minutes ago,
the IE8 has crashed with the hated error message “Internet Explorer has
encountered a problem and needs to close” but the Internet Explorer browser did
not close itself when I click the button on the error message. Also only the
tabs in the active browser which has thrown the exception reloaded or refreshed
its contents. Even the tab that caused the error did not close and I did not
lose the page that I’m working on.
This good experience made me more motivated to share the Internet Explorer 8
news and other info with developers and web users just like me and you.
By the way you can download the
technical overview about the IE8 by downloading it from
Microsoft Downloads Center