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Microsoft Previews Internet Explorer 9 at PDC09

by - source: Tom's Hardware US

Microsoft this week revealed that it has already started work on Internet Explorer 9.

Yesterday at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, the company announced that three weeks ago (which works out at about a week after Windows 7 hit shelves), the Internet Explorer team started work on Internet Explorer 9.

ReadWriteWeb reports that president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, Steven Sinofsky yesterday previewed IE9, showing attendees an early build and explaining that this version of the browser will focus on support for new standards like HTML5 and CSS3, as well as developing a faster JavaScript rendering engine.

Sinofsky went on to say that the team plan to make use of DirectX-based hardware accelerated graphics and text in IE9. Sinofsky showed that IE8 can render Bing maps at 14 frames per second. With hardware acceleration in IE9 turned on, he got 60 frames per second.

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htoonthura 11/19/2009 9:09 PM
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i ditched ie8 since day one. love ff.

ravewulf 11/19/2009 9:12 PM
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Quote :new standards like HTML5 and CSS3, as well as developing a faster JavaScript rendering engine. ... make use of DirectX-based hardware accelerated graphics and text in IE9

Sweet!

fazers_on_stun 11/19/2009 9:14 PM
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About time for a new FF babe - the old one is getting stale :D.

lvlouro 11/19/2009 9:14 PM
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htoonthura :
i ditched ie8 since day one. love ff.



Same here!!!

ssalim 11/19/2009 9:17 PM
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wow, there is IE girl again. wow. not safe for work. Kind of.

ssalim 11/19/2009 9:18 PM
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I only use IE8 for sql server reporting services since FF does not display it correctly (for me). That's it. Nothing else.

Herbert_HA 11/19/2009 9:23 PM
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gaevs 11/19/2009 9:30 PM
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I really, really like the IE girl.. i want one!... oh.. BTW, i use IE8... no prob so far.

snowgoer1998 11/19/2009 9:39 PM
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Was there an article on this page?

insider3 11/19/2009 9:44 PM
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I'll use Netscape Navigator over this.

kelfen 11/19/2009 9:46 PM
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did you forget w/o IE w/e version you could not get ff or any other browser; I use em all because win 7 gets a new id on the bottom

pocketdrummer 11/19/2009 9:46 PM
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IE girl probably has herpes...

yang 11/19/2009 10:00 PM
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I'm always for new innovations, I hope IE9 will look sleek. I love aesthetics of things

Camikazi 11/19/2009 10:00 PM
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Wasn't she the FF girl before IE girl? This is first time I seen her with IE symbol instead of the FF symbol.

john15v16 11/19/2009 10:07 PM
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Unfortunately the world has to deal with crappy IE so I hope it actually passes the CSS ACID test with better scores this time.

itadakimasu 11/19/2009 10:11 PM
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jesus.... ie8 is bad enough.... why not just make ie8 work correctly before making 9 ?

The Schnoz 11/19/2009 10:11 PM
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pocketdrummer :
IE girl probably has herpes...


I don't know about herpes, but share a cup of java with her and you could get a virus in a flash.

JOSHSKORN 11/19/2009 10:13 PM
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Microsoft needs to quit while they're ahead. Windows 7 is good, IE8 is way better than IE7. Windows Vista and IE7 are two things that should've never happened.

Drag0nR1der 11/19/2009 10:24 PM
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JOSHSKORN :
Microsoft needs to quit while they're ahead. Windows 7 is good, IE8 is way better than IE7. Windows Vista and IE7 are two things that should've never happened.



Yes, perhaps they should just fire their whole devlopment team and not develop their products anymore. I honestly think this is the most stupid comment I've read on here. Oh, and if vista hadn't happened, then all the things peopel complained about would have just applied to W7... it was the fall guy for making us change hardware and the way security was implemented.

Anonymous 11/19/2009 10:25 PM
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IE is history for me! As much history as Netscape, and Windows 3.11!

mayne92 11/19/2009 10:37 PM
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IE still sucks...took M$ till version 8 to allow web developers to have less of a headache to program-through-hoops in order to get a webpage to display properly with their shitty browser! lol

mayne92 11/19/2009 10:41 PM
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Shadow703793 11/19/2009 10:45 PM
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The Schnoz :
I don't know about herpes, but share a cup of java with her and you could get a virus in a flash.


That was well played! :lol:

Anonymous 11/19/2009 10:52 PM
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I have developed web applications for IE6 and lower, and with good code you can basically get your design working with minimal effort(As long as your design isn't completely wild). Also if it weren't for Microsoft and IE's innovations the web wouldn't be what it is now. You know AJAX? Yeah the technology behind that was first introduced in IE 5. IE7 and IE8 are good browsers and it doesn't take much to get sites to render properly in them.

I am still a FF guy but IE has come a long way since 6. Good thing FF did come because Microsoft needed the competition. And that was the only way the internet would evolve.

Anonymous 11/19/2009 10:55 PM
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If IE9 is actually standards compliant and works better, then I have no problem using it.

I seriously doubt IE9 will have proper HTML5 canvas support. Doing so would be a slap in the face to SilverLight. Although if Microsoft abandons SilverLight and creates a great development environment for HTML5 canvas that makes using Adobe Flash pointless; I'm all for that.

mpintar 11/19/2009 10:58 PM
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mayne92 :
New innovations?...from M$?...M$ "innovations" are ideas from other innovators. As M$ is a huge company, you would think you'd see greater amount of innovations that no-body has seen before, a new idea, whatever. But it seems to always be an "innovation" that can be found from something or someone else...



Microsoft is quite innovative you look behind the cover. A lot of things you see from Microsoft may not seem that innovative(IE, office, Windows). They do have a bunch of applications and even hardware. Also go look at Microsoft Research. Microsoft also spends a shit ton of money on Research, although that doesn't always mean that it reaches the consumers eye's.

Thomaseron 11/19/2009 11:01 PM
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Make it a rapid browser, and I'll try it out. Till then, I'll stick with Chrome, thank you very much.

kyeana 11/19/2009 11:13 PM
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The Schnoz :
I don't know about herpes, but share a cup of java with her and you could get a virus in a flash.



Haha oh too clever ;)

wildwell 11/19/2009 11:23 PM
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ProDigit80 :
IE is history for me! As much history as Netscape, and Windows 3.11!


+1!
IE!? FF and Opera all the way!

Anonymous 11/19/2009 11:58 PM
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It will be great if IE9 is actually standards-compliant. It's a PITA having to support IE7/8, and you're SOL if you still use IE6. It's sad, though, that M$ is only just starting to work on support for HTML5 and CSS3. Firefox, Chrome, and Safari have had partial support for those standards for a while now.

matchboxmatt 11/20/2009 12:48 PM
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If they can get it as fast as Chrome or Safari, I'm all for it.


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