{"id":6952,"date":"2008-03-28T22:12:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/translation\/2008\/03\/28\/ie8-translation-activity\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T22:12:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T06:12:31","slug":"ie8-translation-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/translator/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/ie8-translation-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"IE8 Translation Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">friends<\/a> over in the Internet Explorer building recently released a developer preview version of IE8. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-left: 0px;border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"234\" alt=\"MSIE8\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Translationsinthecontextmenu_105E3\/MSIE8_3.png\" width=\"356\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of interesting features in IE8 developer beta 1, ranging from improved <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2008\/03\/07\/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-for-developers-standards-highlights.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">standards<\/a> compatibility to improving security through elegant tweaks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2008\/03\/11\/address-bar-improvements-in-internet-explorer-8-beta-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">address bar<\/a>. Web slices, improved <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2008\/03\/12\/the-ie8-favorites-bar.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Favorites<\/a> bar and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2008\/03\/07\/improved-productivity-through-internet-explorer-8-developer-tools.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">developer toolbar<\/a> are some other welcome additions to the feature set. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2008\/03\/06\/activities-and-webslices-in-internet-explorer-8.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Activities<\/a> feature in IE8 is a great way for users to access various web services in a single click. We are very excited to deliver translations through the Translation activity for IE8. If you don&#8217;t already have it available through the activities menu you can get it (along with other great activities) from <a href=\"http:\/\/ie.microsoft.com\/activities\/en-en\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"282\" alt=\"IE8ActivityCapture\" src=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/translation\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Translationsinthecontextmenu_105E3\/IE8ActivityCapture_1.jpg\" width=\"456\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a detailed review on the Translation activity, and to hear it in &quot;non product manager speak&quot;, you can check out Helvecio&#8217;s blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/mtbotprototype.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns!3F1A4578DEE8B!404.entry\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can download the developer preview IE8 from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/ie\/ie8\/default.mspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. More information on newer releases and other features is available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">IE team blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to hearing about your experiences with the Translation activity for IE8.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Translating!<\/p>\n<p>Vikram<\/p>\n<h6>Vikram works on Incubation Strategy for Microsoft Research Machine Translation team<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends over in the Internet Explorer building recently released a developer preview version of IE8. There are a lot of interesting features in IE8 developer beta 1, ranging from improved standards compatibility to improving security through elegant tweaks to the address bar. 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