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OK this really wierd thing was happening to us in IE8 Beta 2 on a few of our machines. When we do a Google search we get a Google Checkout widget up in the top left corner of the results page. Any ideas why this might be happening?

One of the neat new features in the Internet Explorer 8 Beta are Webslices. This is a special tag in your HTML that lets Explorer “subscribe” to that section of your page, and notify a user as it changes. It’s like an RSS feed, but you can easily make non-rss content subscribable in this way.

To participate:

1. Get the Internet Explorer 8 Beta.
2. Visit our site and peripheral sites (knowledgebase, blogs, forums, and the like)
3. Discover the 5 webslices and post a comment on this blog post describing where to find each one.
4. The first person to do this will get a free 1-seat license for CompleteUI!

At the moment there are exactly 5 of these in total, and they’re not hard to spot so this is a gimme.

I had this problem today.. I want to detect IE8 when it’s trying to emulate IE7.. dont ask why.. just trust there was a good reason. Point is – IE8 gives an IE7 user agent:

4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)

One way to do it is to use JavaScript to detect the presense of XDomainRequest, which is a new addition to the browser, and peaks in on the IE7 emulated mode.

Ie: