IE8 Release Candidate 1 public build launched

After several months without a public build, we’ve finally got to the RC1.

They’ve fixed around 8 of the 16 of the bugs (that I logged) that were present in the pre-RC1. A list of the bugs that were fixed between the pre-RC1 and this latest build are below:-

#	Name	Description
1	Dynamic changes to counter-increment??		Test Case
2	Children’s counter does not take into account the scope of the parent’s counter, resulting in incorrect incrementation.	This issue goes against the self-nesting nature of counters, as defined in 12.5.1		Bug Ticket
3	Vertical scrollbar when using overflow:auto, and certain combinations of EM units for line-height and font-size for descendant elements			Bug Ticket
4	Mispositioned borders and outlines on elements when parent element has a negative text-indent			Bug Ticket
5	TABLE-displayed element (in normal flow) is rendered below preceeding floated element			Bug Ticket
6	Expanded :hover (and clickable, if A element) area (caused by Padding) of inline element not honoured
7	Bullets or counters within a list (OL or UL, with rtl direction) are affected by the highlighting text within their immediate succeeding element			Bug Ticket
8	Value of malformed width property is parsed

As you can see they’ve fixed quite a few bugs in this latest build, but the list of bugs in the IE8 Final Build is getting larger and larger by the day; this means its certain that IE8 will not be fully Level 2.1 compliant, as I’ve said before.