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Internet Explorer 9, developer preview -- speed, graphics and HTML5 demos within
Looking at the HTML5 tests, Opera has some serious competition for HTML5 support. In the keynote, Microsoft talks about HTML5 speeding up the current web, using hardware acceleration. It sounds like, from the keynote, that HTML5 is going to be the main feature of IE9 (along with the new, faster JavaScript engine). A lot of emphasis is being put on performance in its entirety, rather than 'just' executing JavaScript faster.
Microsoft's answer is not simply to speed up JavaScript execution, but how it's executed -- on separate cores! In parallel with your actual IE9 rendering/networking processes.
Anyway, get HTML5 installed, and go give each of the tests a go: the t-shirt demo is impressive, and for fun check out the 'SVG-oids' (Asteroids) clone.
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Subscribe to commentsjokermatt999Mar 16th 2010 12:59PM
Wait, are you impying that there could be a fully standards compliant IE? This *is* big news!
Sebastian AnthonyMar 16th 2010 1:03PM
I think they will comply to a SET of standards that they feel most help the user and developer.
synerageMar 16th 2010 1:44PM
I just have this little feeling that it'll still suck in comparison to other browsers (especially those using WebKit).
NeuroMar 16th 2010 1:57PM
a) SVG support is still quite limited. I hope that "coming later" means in next release of the preview, and not IE10
b) no canvas. Really, microsoft? Is it that hard to implement what basically amounts to javascript interface to GDI? You gotta me kidding me. Now I know why you helped to remove the canvas out of HTML5 specs.
c) the "API chart" here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/html5-hardware-accelerated-first-ie9-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx
is what always pisses me off. IE (still most used browser) doesn't support some API, so websites won't use it, so Microsoft finds out it's not used and thus they won't implement it. Catch-22, splendid
AnthonyMar 17th 2010 12:49AM
Is it seriously that hard to listen to developers and just implement all web standards in a NON-proprietary way (aka "not the way Microsoft wants it to work, but a way that ACTUALLY works")? Developers hate trying to build IE-compliant websites. As it is, IE8 finally passes the Acid2 test. But a 20/100 on the Acid3? Not acceptable. If IE9 only scores a 55/100, that's even less acceptable simply because it's the last rendering engine to actually score less than a 90 on the Acid3 test. Even Firefox 3.6 scores a 94. Developers always complain that they have to design sites around Internet Exploder. Stop pissing people off, Microsoft! Please, think of the developers!
Sebastian AnthonyMar 17th 2010 6:23AM
Internet Exploder...
Is that like Nutscrape?