>Here are some browser news updates:
- Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is now available (announced in a blog post on the IE blog). See the upgrade guide.
- WebKit (the engine inside Safari and Chrome) introduces CSS-based animations, which is different from transitions. Animations are explicitly triggered.
- In line with V8 an Squirrelfish Extreme, Opera has announced it is also working on a new JavaScript engine: Carakan.
- Firebug 1.3.1b4 has been released.
- SitePoint announced it has released FireScope, an extension for Firebug that provides an in-place reference for HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
