Scott talked a bit about some of the new things we'll see at Mix08

• MVC
• Dynamic Data framework
• ASP.NET AJAX Enhancements
• Internet Explorer 8

Demo of IE8 (Dean Hachamovitch) - thinking back to IE7 there was a big focus on security but there's more that could be done for developers and interoperability. Too much time spent getting basic things to work.

• CSS 2.1 support - compliance with CSS spec to ensure consistency across different browsers
• CSS Certification - comprehensive test suite required, contributed over 700 test cases to W3C
• Support for "legacy" IE content - IE7 compatibility mode - under control of developer
• Performance - big enhancements around script performance
• HTML 5 Support
• AJAX support - eg back button support
• Connection events supported - lose connection and you're warned and in the demo the submit button becomes a save button instead - very cool
• Developer Support - new debugging capabilities
• Very cool debugger demo - showing drilling down into page content, script, CSS applying dynamic changes etc
• Activities - bit like Office Smart Tags. Author activities to allow you to search, map, see a review etc of content on the page
• Described in an XML document
• eBay had their activity working within an hour exposing their API
• OpenService specification
• Webslices
• Make available portions of web page as a webslice - get added to your favourites
• Define by attributing up existing markup
• Webslices specification
• IE8 Beta 1 Available from today