Internet Explorer 9: First Details
After the release of Windows 7, Microsoft decided to switch attention to one of the most important components of its OS - Internet Explorer. Feeling the strongest competition from Firefox and Google Chrome, Microsoft uncovered the first details of Internet Explorer 9 at the Microsoft Professional Developer's conference in Los Angeles.
The new browser is still only at the initial stage of development and has been actively developed only for the last 3 weeks since the release of Windows 7, but the development is aimed at compliance and perhaps even improving web standards.
Some details:
At the moment, most industry experts believe that Internet Explorer is the most lagging behind in terms of compatibility and support for web standards and speed. It seems that Microsoft is going to work hard in this direction to change the situation with the release of IE9. The new browser is still far from release, so to say what exactly will be done and whether the company will succeed in making the browser not inferior to Firefox, Safari, Chrome or IE will definitely not disappear into the air.
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UPD . Thanks, moved to the appropriate blog.
UPD2 . Harbra-user ilinsky posted a post with links to a video about the details of the new IE
The new browser is still only at the initial stage of development and has been actively developed only for the last 3 weeks since the release of Windows 7, but the development is aimed at compliance and perhaps even improving web standards.
Some details:
- Regarding HTML5 . Here, Microsoft went away from a direct answer about the full support of all HTML 5 standards. The company is not ready to undertake the obligation to fully support the new markup language until the final standard is adopted. However, "promised to try" to support HTML 5.
- Regarding Javascript . Microsoft acknowledged that previous versions of IE are lagging behind Firefox and Google Chrome in performance. For some of the data presented, IE9 made a breakthrough to reduce this gap, but the performance of competitors won is not yet an issue.
- Regarding CSS support . It looks like IE9 "finally" will get support for CSS3, especially with regard to rounded corners. It should be noted that other browsers have long supported this feature.
- Regarding hardware acceleration . IE9 will use DirectX hardware acceleration to improve graphics rendering and AJAX. This should push developers to work more towards the GPU (rendering acceleration due to the use of a video card processor).
At the moment, most industry experts believe that Internet Explorer is the most lagging behind in terms of compatibility and support for web standards and speed. It seems that Microsoft is going to work hard in this direction to change the situation with the release of IE9. The new browser is still far from release, so to say what exactly will be done and whether the company will succeed in making the browser not inferior to Firefox, Safari, Chrome or IE will definitely not disappear into the air.
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UPD . Thanks, moved to the appropriate blog.
UPD2 . Harbra-user ilinsky posted a post with links to a video about the details of the new IE
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75695/
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