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Microsoft releases second IE9 developer preview -- now where's that UI?
IE9 Developer Preview 2 is here about two weeks ahead of schedule, but its user interface is not.
Still, the second version has progressed nicely. The fledgling browser's Sunspider benchmark result has been dropped by nearly 120ms (on my test rig it was about 11% slower than Firefox 3.7 overall), its Acidtest score crept up a few more points, and several new samples have been added to the test site (we'll have a screencast of one of the cooler demos up in a little bit).
I just wish they'd hurry up and give us access to some basic functionality like back and forward buttons and the ability to handle pop-up windows. It's rather annoying to test when pop-ups keep trying to open externally in IE8. Maybe next release...
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Subscribe to commentsGilbert PalauMay 5th 2010 11:49AM
Mirosoft? Nice typo Lee...
ArnieMay 5th 2010 11:55AM
While benchmarks are nice to give a relative difference in performance between certain browsers, they are not the complete picture esp SunSpider et. all. IE9 is really really fast and easily stands up to Chrome in render times of everyday pages, esp if you a dual core/quad core CPU.
smoverMay 5th 2010 1:01PM
Did they announced an UI chance ? It would be great of course, IE8 badly failed there.
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DavidMay 5th 2010 1:00PM
Lee, it's called IE9 *Platform Preview* for a reason - it's for developers to test their websites and test the new features available with IE9 and deliberately missing the browser chrome so that consumers don't use it as a web browser. A consumer preview with browser chrome will be released once they begin to complete their rendering engine, but it's important for them to focus on the rendering engine first before toying around with browser chrome.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/16/about-the-platform-preview.aspx
flexMay 5th 2010 2:21PM
Oh wow, MS is actually doing something to their browser unlike Apple. :(
I'm waiting for Safari 5.
AnthonyMay 5th 2010 3:09PM
http://www.firefox.com
toocool4schoolMay 5th 2010 3:47PM
Mozilla Minefield/Firefox 3.7 (on my Mac) is smokin fast, faster than Chrome even, but I guess that's not fair since Chrome for Mac is one yr behind. And I just use the Nightly Tester to get all my extensions working.
I highly recommend those Minefield nightly builds