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IE9 unveiled. Faster, more standards-compliant -- DirectX accelerated!
Their goals with IE9 seem pretty obvious from the graphs shown in their presentation: faster, more standards-compliant website rendering. If you look at the slide above, lower is faster. And that's just three weeks into their development of a new browser and web rendering engine!
They're also including 'hardware accelerated' rendering using your graphics card using the DirectX D2D technology. Whether you're trying to perform funky stuff with CSS3, Javascript or DHTML, IE9 should render things a lot faster.
There's a big video (that requires Silverlight!) after the break. It explains and impressively-demonstrates the new DirectX D2D speed-up.
[via GeekSmack]
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Subscribe to commentsKeegdnaBNov 18th 2009 2:09PM
Standards-compliant IE?
There is a cold wind in the air
Sebastian AnthonyNov 18th 2009 2:20PM
No no, 'more standards-compliant' -- a small step in the right direction...!
YonatanNov 18th 2009 6:10PM
What better way to celebrate a new faster, more standards-compliant browser than to greet the user with a SilverLight (TM) installation dialogue?
216Nov 18th 2009 2:18PM
So its faster? Big whoop, wannafightaboutit?
Sebastian AnthonyNov 18th 2009 2:20PM
Apple fanboy.
RobertoNov 18th 2009 2:21PM
hhahahaha, let's wait and see if they actually deliver. it will be very difficult for Microsoft to compete with the features and flexibility that Mozilla Firefox has since it launched, and what Google Chrome is doing right now, with the Extensions coming very soon.
Matt S.Nov 19th 2009 8:28AM
Well considering IE9 will be the only browser to have hardware accelerated rendering.. I think IE9 will beable to compete just fine especially since the speed of IE9's JS engine with only 3 weeks of work on it is in line with Firefox 3.6beta. Couple that with the HTML5 and CSS3 additions. IE9 will be a competitor again..
hmmNov 19th 2009 9:40AM
Opera started work on hardware acceleration in 2008.
http://my.opera.com/core/archive/monthly/?month=200806
See the video of Opera running fully hardware accelerated on that site.
blackronin357Nov 19th 2009 12:04AM
Its kinda fishy I don't see Opera Browser up there! Yeah, I'm fanboy when it comes to them, cuz they have so many old innovations that are now standard on all the other browsers implementing them today.
Sgt ZeppelinNov 18th 2009 2:34PM
I can't decide whether I should be impressed by the gains they've made in 3 weeks, or mad because it just shows what kind of a browser they're coming from. I would be great if Microsoft can put out a competitive browser this time around. (Oh, and adblock please!)
RGNov 18th 2009 2:49PM
Frankly if the improvement is anywhere near compared to IE6-->IE7-->IE8 then IE9 will be excellent.
N900Nov 18th 2009 2:54PM
IE9. Sounds badass.
GenericNov 18th 2009 2:59PM
Microsoft kept boasting about how fast IE8 was but the graph tells a different story.
Long live Firefox.
sRcNov 18th 2009 5:29PM
well look at IE8 compared to IE7 in that graph. it is loads faster compared to the last iteration, but the other major browsers dropped there speed a good amount too so it still ended up the slowest by a fair amount
DiddleNov 21st 2009 6:27PM
IE9: We may be faster, but we're still the slowest.
JoshNov 18th 2009 3:01PM
For people that don't want to download Silverlight, this should be the link: http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/ch9/1/7/8/5/0/5/IE9D2D_ch9.wmv (though it's not working for me)
The_StevenNov 18th 2009 3:16PM
And next, the weather report for Hell.....
JamesNov 18th 2009 4:38PM
I'm hopeful that they'll really improve it, for real this time. I'm hopeful after seeing Windows 7 & Microsoft Security Essentials
AnthonyNov 18th 2009 5:15PM
Ok, Microsoft... how 'bout you ditch the Trident rendering engine or at least include WebKit?
karaNov 18th 2009 8:59PM
I think people also forget about opera and what not which has a nice system. I think IE does need to start working with the standers and stop forcing developers to write the javascript and CSS twice because of IE is the ONLY browser that wants to not follow standers