IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser

IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser

on Mar 16th 2010 with 142 comments

Today, as part of MIX 2010, some exciting updates were released on the progress of Internet Explorer 9. The IE team is implementing some incredible features, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG support, and a new lightning fast JavaScript engine, Chakra! Further, they’re currently scoring a 55 on the Acid3 test – a figure that’s surely to increase substantially before the official release. What about the idea of Microsoft contributing to an open source project, jQuery, with their proposed templating engine? Within moments of these announcements, the Twitter-verse spilled “tears of joy.”

Want to dive in and check out the developer preview? That’s available too, starting today!




Take IE9 for a Test Drive.

Finally, we announced the availability of the first IE Platform Preview for developers, and our commitment to update it approximately every eight weeks. We want the developer community to have an earlier hands-on experience with the progress we’re making on the IE platform. The Platform Preview, and the feedback loop it is part of, marks a major change from previous IE releases.
IE Blog

Demos

Check out some of the demos below in each browser to learn the unique code required for each.

New JavaScript Engine: Chakra

JavaScript Graph

“You’ll notice that IE9 is faster at this benchmark than IE8 and several other browsers. It’s interesting to note that the difference between today’s IE9 preview and the browsers to its right in this graph. It takes about 70 seconds to identify a 300ms difference between browsers.”
IE Blog

Miscellaneous Tweets about IE9 from MIX 2010

“Video tag and SVG support in IE 9 as well – and it’s crazy fast. Very impressed.”
John Resig

“Microsoft to Expand its Collaboration with the jQuery Community”: http://bit.ly/cxybri
@jQuery

“Today makes me very happy to have come to work at Microsoft. Very excited right now to see the reactions of the community.”
Rey Bango

“They’re asking for help in getting ppl to move IE6 to IE8. They want users on modern browsers.”
Rey Bango

“Open source, open standards, open Microsoft. Today I woke up to a different world than I thought I was living in.”
Molly E. Holzschlag

“So what we have here is HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1 in IE9. If I weren’t seeing it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t freakin’ believe it.”
Molly E. Holzschlag

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  • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
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    This posting will be updated over the course of the day, as new information becomes available.

  • Jeremy

    Still waiting for a new Mac version so us mac-ies can test without swapping systems…

    • http://icontut.com nabeel

      Lol, with chrome and safari web kit i think there is no space on the dock for ie. Also its a ms product so it will be packed full of nasty surprises.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      IE5/Mac was a completely different beast than IE5/Win. Different rendering engines, different standards support specs, different development teams. IE/Win would have to fundamentally change to be cross-platform, and Microsoft’s never going to spend the money to do that.

    • Rob

      It seems unlikely that MS will go through the effort just for the web-dev community. The average Mac user doesn’t need or wantIE.

  • http://www.daniel-petrie.com Daniel Petrie

    Things are looking much better for IE finally. They still have the issue of getting people to actually update their old browsers though…

    • http://willans.net Simon Willans

      Sadly, one of the biggest issues with the novice computer user – they’ll use whatever ‘works’. Or, in larger organisations where there’s too much paperwork in the way of an upgrade. Sad times. I just hope the trend of larger companies abandoning IE6 support will hurry things up.

    • http://www.mightymeta.co.uk James Brocklehurst

      Agreed, the current situation won’t change upon the release of IE9, unless MS devises a way of encouraging (forcing?) everyone to upgrade.

      The fact that they are planning to adopt HTML5, CSS3 and SVG along with everyone else, rather than push their own competing and proprietary technologies (*cough* Silverlight *cough*) is a real game changer though and to be commended.

  • http://www.pinoyscreencast.com techie.biox

    wow! a lot of new features.

  • w1sh

    Yeah, I saw the JS engine they were working on and the fact that other browsers are taking over the market and figured Microsoft would get it’s head out of it’s ass for IE9.

  • richard interweb

    too bad people still use IE6 from 2001.

  • ySchaub

    *looks at the calendar*
    WOW! It’s not April 1!
    I hope this is going in the right direction, looking great so far.

  • http://cmtstudio.tumblr.com/ CMT

    Finally IE9… now IE6 will be three versions below.
    Wohooo!

    I really don’t believe Chakra will be faster than Chrome’s or Opera’s JavaScript engine, but I’ll try to open my mind.
    And Microsoft + Open source = back thoughts, I just don’t believe in those guys’ attentions and innocence.

    With all that said, I’m really glad that once again MS decided to steal more ideas from modern browsers – it’s better than trying to do it on their own ( for example trying to implement W3C standarts in IE6 :P ).
    The fact that they’re creating “IE Platform Preview for developers” for the first time in 2010 already makes me laugh.

    But I guess it’s maybe better later that never. :)

  • Holden Christiansen

    What is everybody so excited about? IE is finally adopting features that have been out for a while now. There’s nothing special about IE 9 at all. The only reaction there should be is “Finally.” and move on.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      IE9′s the only browser with JIT compiling on a separate core, and its the only browser using DX for rendering (although Safari uses OS X’s Quartz, doesn’t it?). Fairly large firsts. IE8 was the first browser to put tabs in their own processes.

      Everybody “steals”.

      • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

        Don’t mind me. This was supposed to be a response to CMT’s comment.

      • Daniel

        I agree, If things work, they work. Just because someone else had the idea first means that someone else can’t use it ? none of them have 100% created everything from scratch off there own back they have all taken ideas from each other.

      • Jorde Vorstenbosch

        Chrome did that before IE8.

        At least it’s getting (much) better than before. I do hope however that everyone will upgrade this time. But I guess that’s logical with a lot of people switching to Windows 7 and Windows XP support dieing in 2011 :).

    • Bretticus

      When you get clients that call you up because the layout is broken on their website because a developer didn’t bother to check the layout in IE (or because the client is using IE6) it’s a relief to know that MS *may* be supporting the standards of everyone else. Yes, pretty much everyone else is using IE (unfortunately.)

      It will be several years before the majority of users are using IE9 (right after they purchase that new computer.) Perhaps, we need to adopt the process of making badges that say, “For an improved experience, please upgrade to Internet Explorer 9.”

      • http://www.brettjankord.com Brett

        I think you have a great point. IE 9 sounds great, yet for many designers and developers, we are stuck with clients that will be using older browsers. A great way to push them to upgrade, besides encouraging them to buy a new computer, would be some sort of notice for better user experience, upgrade to IE 9. Personally, I would choose not to support old browsers, yet in the real world, this is just not an option.

      • Bretticus

        Ha, agreed.

        I just wanted to state that the comment that IE9 will be adopted “right after they purchase that new computer…” was meant to be conveyed “tongue in cheek.” That is, we know that most people of the never-even-thought-about-upgrading mentality will only adopt because they suddenly purchase a new computer with Windows and IE9 preinstalled and will be none the wiser. That’s why I wrote, “Perhaps, we need to adopt the process of making badges that say, “For an improved experience, please upgrade to Internet Explorer 9.”

    • Rob

      It’s a huge deal because IE still dominates market share, and has been the key factor holding back real progress in web development and design. All MS has to do is push an update, and drive a marketing campaign to encourage people to upgrade. With all the major browsers playing on a level field, web design and web development are a brand new game. No more IE6 CSS hacks, no more struggling with degradation solutions, and no more JS libraries with the sole purpose of getting a feature to halfway work in IE. It’s a very big deal.

      Finally.

      • dave

        They need to quit trying to dictate everything and simply follow the standards like everyone else. Every version they try to re-invent the wheel and we have to pay for it for years after

        Browser Statistics Month by Month

        2010 IE8 IE7 IE6 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera
        February 14.7% 11.0% 9.6% 46.5% 11.6% 3.8% 2.1%
        January 14.3% 11.7% 10.2% 46.3% 10.8% 3.7% 2.2%

  • http://chrisbauer.org Chris Bauer

    “They’re asking for help in getting ppl to move IE6 to IE8. They want users on modern browsers.”
    -Rey Bango

    If they want users on modern browsers, IE8 certainly won’t do. Lacking CSS3 support means it isn’t a modern browser.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      Considering CSS3 is still not a formalized and recommended spec, your criteria of a “modern browser” is a bit off.

      • http://www.brettjankord.com Brett

        I don’t think modern browsers are defined by if they support CSS3 or not, but if you look at the latest version of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, I believe even Opera, they all support some CSS3 features. When IE 9 comes out I think that would make IE 8 outdated, thus no longer being modern even though it is still fairly new.

  • Chris

    Well everyone seems to be pretty impressed and I don’t want to disappoint you, but:
    Fifefox and Safari have these features already. By the time IE9 comes out, they will be some steps further and IE9 will be old again.
    Just wanted to mention that…

    • Bretticus

      Seriously,

      I wouldn’t say they collectively support a standard. I have to use redundant CSS3 at the moment. And there’s obviously a contested “standard” with HTML5 video. Perhaps IE will adopt one or the other and that may encourage actual standards to be accepted (unless IE goes the mozilla route. Heaven knows that if Apple has anything to say about it, they will not conform.)

    • http://design-creators.net Alexander Trefz

      take a look at this http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/ and see the reality. And then think about DirectWrite, GPU-Powered HTML5 and then think again.

      The most important thing on this whole IE9 thing is the Sub-Message: MS is going the right way, and MS is going to push not final formalized Standards. Thats a BIG Change.

  • Sosby

    Dont get me wrong, I’m glad to see microsoft stepping it up in the browser department, but i don’t see why it took this long for them to adopt a more standards compliant approach when it comes to developing browsers. I would love to see what they bring to the table, but unless they can create a browser that is as elegantly simple as Chrome and as powerful as Firefox or Safari, that is cross-platform and comes with a powerful api for developers, I doubt it would warrant a switch from one of my other standards compliant browsers that are available TODAY.

    I am happy that IE will hopefully no longer be a pain in almost every developer’s backside and hope that this does turn out to be more than just too little too late.

    ps. numbers on a graph don’t mean anything, its real world experience that separate the winners from the losers.

  • http://www.idesignb.com Bryan

    This is very interesting. I doubt it would make me switch browser preferences because of its new features it has implemented.

  • http://john.onolan.org JohnONolan

    What’s up with the negativity in the comments? You all bitch and moan about IE constantly, and then when they finally make a MASSIVE step in the right direction – you’re saying “it’s nothing to get excited about” ??

    Yes other browsers have had these features for a long time – thank you for stating the obvious. The fact that IE has 50% of the market and is finally getting these features is huge news, and absolutely something to get excited about!

    Give them some credit for once.

    • http://www.jvdesigns.com.au Jason

      I think the fact that IE6 is still so widely used makes it hard to get excited about this.

      Yeah, MS is moving in the right direction, which is great. But the reason people continue to use IE6 will not have changed.

      Just because IE9 arrives, doesn’t mean IE6 will disappear.

      • http://john.onolan.org JohnONolan

        At what point did *anyone* say that IE9 was going to make IE6 disappear?

  • Danijel

    I think it will be great. :)

    Microsoft is better and better with time :)

  • http://www.twitter.com/netjunky88 Eugene

    Will the install of IE9 replace my current IE8?

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      What they released today will not replace IE8.

      • http://www.twitter.com/netjunky88 Eugene

        Okey. Installed, tested and uninstalled. Didn’t impress me mutch, but I am waiting for a full release. Then we will see.

      • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

        What they released today was a preview of the updated Trident and JS engine. IE9 itself isn’t anywhere near beta yet.

  • ShadowAssassin

    So, they are happy they scored a 55 on IE 9? Shame on them!

    Firefox scored my in the 90′s. Also I.E 9 isn’t something to rave about, IE is simply a rubbish browser, that’s my 2 cents anyway.

    • Russell Skaggs

      No one is saying its better, but its nice that they are attempting to play nice because the sad fact is that despite all our best efforts, most users aren’t going to switch browsers. In their minds when a website breaks its the websites fault because their browser “displays every other page” correctly. We are lucky if we can get them to upgrade.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      The day Acid tests die is a good day, in my opinion.

      Acid3 is a useless, synthetic benchmark. It’s a test not developed by W3C, and it uses CSS3 from working drafts (ie: incomplete spec drafts as opposed to complete recommendations). It also incorporates the use of CSS features that will rarely, if ever, be used.

      Microsoft did the right thing by determining what was actually used as opposed to blindly supporting standards that are not in a final state or will be rarely, if ever, used.

  • Jason

    This reminds me to the first part of this movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_P5r-hguo :)

    • http://www.25thingsdesign.com Devin

      Welcome to Microsoft’s Marketing Strategy Department?

  • http://freshclickmedia.com Shane

    Good to hear that IE9 is shaping up to be a massive improvement on previous versions. Although it’s great to hear that things are getting better, lots of people will still be using machines that have operating systems tied to IE6 (I’m thinking corporate users here).

    However, this is all the more reason to drive home progressive enhancement.

  • Patrick

    Oh PLEASE!

    DON’T PUSH IE!

  • http://www.brettjankord.com Brett Jankord

    This is great news, yet it saddens me too. IE is now starting to build browsers that actually use modern technologies. This is cool and all, but what about the people still in IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8. Do you think they will suddenly upgrade to IE 9?????? I guess I’m happy to see the opportunities this opens up but at the same time, IE 7 and IE 8 will just be the new IE 6. At least those browsers handle modern techniques much better than IE 6, yet I still see Microsoft’s support for their old browsers lasting a while and not really pushing their users to upgrade to the latest browser. I think the best way to get users to upgrade their browsers to modern ones, is to do what You Tube and Google do. Don’t support old browsers.

  • Jeff McKeand

    The title to this post has me in stitches. Microsoft should swallow its pride, build features on a Webkit base, and move on. I’m tired of IE *almost* getting it right.

  • http://www.whenimnotsleeping.com Bryce Howitson

    I’m getting to the point where I could care less what features are or are not included in IE9. Right now the smallest percentage of IE users are on version 8, most are several versions behind that. Its silly to believe that just because IE9 exists, that it will provide any incentive for people to upgrade. Most IE users either don’t even know what a browser is (let alone how to upgrade) or are barred from upgrading by some corporate policy.

    Its nice of Microsoft to step up and actually start supporting standards, but if I can’t assume that those standards are available for another 10 years then I gotta ask why should we care?

    • Chris

      We’ll care in 10 years ;}

    • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

      My thoughts exactly Bryce. Just because they’re releasing a more modern standardised browser doesn’t mean all those IE6 users are going to upgrade.

      The problem in the first place is people not upgrading. The people using IE6/7 need to be educated with the reasons to upgrade. If this doesn’t happen, the development of IE is pretty futile.

  • Carlos

    Waiting for Microsoft to actually push their new browsers. Firefox auto updates nicely. IE just doesn’t do anything. Market it Microsoft or abandon the whole IE project. Get people off of their old browsers and stop supporting it yourselves.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      It’s a little more complicated than that. Firefox certainly has a decent market share, but the majority of users are still your above average computer-literate person. These types of people are more likely to update their software when needed. The majority of people using IE use it because it came with their computer, and they just want to get to the internet. Anything obstructing their path to the internet is a hindrance. Prompting may get some people updated, but from my experience with the masses, it won’t. I’d love to be wrong, though.

  • Chris

    It’s about damn time! I mean to have the largest browser share of the market and still be lacking even modern standards should have been a real embarrassment to them. I am more excited about the fact they may actually have a plan to keep IE9 up to date without waiting X many years for decent upgrades.

    FINALLY designers might finally get to develop cross platform since everyone is now on board with standards :D

  • dave

    This is all fine and dandy, but this doesn’t solve anything. Microsoft can release IE17, and enterprise corporations, along with the government, will continue to use a browser from 2001. Why?

    1) All their internal apps run on it.
    2) Enterprise companies don’t need SVG and CSS3 support. They just don’t.
    3) The cost of upgrading thousands of machines just isn’t feasible.
    3b) the cost of TESTING all of those old, internal apps on a completely new platform (IE9) is even more out of reach.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love what MS is doing with their browser. They are finally starting to accept the new web technologies and move forward, but the damage is done…unfortunately. The only way to fix it is to just flat out stop supporting IE6, and FORCE people to change their ways.

    • http://www.wdonline.com Jeremy

      That’s where developers come in. If they update their apps to leverage the new technology support, companies will eventually get the new product. It won’t be immediate, but it would make it happen sooner by discontinuing support for the older, IE6-based apps.

      I disagree with companies not needing SVG. The devs I work with would love to use SVG for charts; instead, we have to use Flash, Silverlight, or Java.

    • http://redeyedesigner.com David B

      Agreed. IE6 is coming along it’s 10 year anniversary. I still spend time fixing IE6 issues, but I’m not loosing any sleep over it… and neither are my clients.

    • http://www.steveandkathygray.com Jeremy

      You have to wonder if this ‘forcing’ will come from Microsoft, or if Web Developers world-wide will have to unite in their decision to stop support for IE6.

      That used to be a humorous question. But taking into account the stubbornness of corporations to change … and Google / YouTube’s discontinued IE6 support – I’m legitimately wondering which will come first.

  • http://jaycarlsondesign.com Jay Carlson

    doesn’t surprise me: IE9 doesn’t support text-shadow CSS3. yawn. nothing new to see here folks.

    J.

  • Bill

    Quite a few people I know still use XP and I still use XP in Parallels Desktop for testing IE6, IE7 and IE8. It will be interesting to know if IE9 will run on XP, or whether it will only run in Windows 7. If IE9 involves an OS upgrade, I fear the number of people still using older versions of IE is not really going to diminish, and that will mean more hard work for developers. Too bad Micro$oft wont accept defeat and just switch to Gecko or WebKit…

    • Patrick

      @Bill, it does not currently work for XP Gizmodo is reporting.

    • john

      It will not work on windows xp.

  • http://www.slo-foto.net Lucifix

    For me it will be enough if they build only round corners in :)

  • http://contempographicdesign.com Chris Robinson

    Wish I could take her for a spin but I’m running XP on my PC…

  • Russell Skaggs

    I am as Anti-IE as the next developer, but since Microsoft is trying to play nice there is nothing wrong with supporting IE9. I wouldn’t personally use it, but I would recomend the users that are afraid/don’t want to switch browsers to at least upgrade.

    I just want to know which side of the codec war they will be on.

  • http://www.kitfoxink.com/ Kit MacAllister

    I’m impressed. Any browser that is willing to support HTML 5, CSS 3 and faster Javascript rendering is OK in my book. Competition forces all of the browsers to up their game.

  • Bill

    IE6 FTW !

  • Esck21

    Meh… IE6 ftw!.

  • Thall

    Awesome!

  • Blink Interactive

    It doesn’t matter. Those people sticking with IE6 or whatever will still stick with what they’ve got.

  • David Bilson

    I think this is a great step forward in the right direction.

    OK, I don’t expect many web developers to be ditching Safari, Opera, Chrome or Firefox anytime soon.

    I can’t understand the people who are knocking Microsoft for finally creating a reasonable browser, with what seems will be (according to the MS Blog quote above)

    “commitment to update it approximately every eight weeks”.

    If users get reminded when updates are available by the browser (similar to how Firefox does it), who knows maybe some will upgrade.

    I know it has taken a long time to get here, but Microsoft appear to be supporting the Web Development Community and I for one think that is great.

  • Kyle Sowards

    I think it would be a good idea for windows to make an IE9 Mac client, I would NEVER use it, but now they are trying to push the use of their failing search engine, bing.com, and having that built into IE9 as a default for a mac user, would help. Microsoft is FINALLY learning that cross platform support can make them money, they still have the potential to shoot them selves in the foot, but hey PC users use safari right? And that was alleged to be pretty nasty, but people still use it, the same effect could exist on the Mac platform as well, aside from developers I mean.

    • Russell Skaggs

      Web Developers running PC download Safari, but I don’t know of a single, non-developer that uses safari on Windows.

      • http://twitter.com/KGTheNerd Karthik

        That’s right

      • Robert

        My friends are actually using it – non devs

  • oconn96

    I guess I arrived late to the bash fest. I think this is great news for us web developers. For people still viewing the web with old IE versions this will give them a chance to use a modern browser that is familiar to them. I think too many people here took this news as them saying that IE9 is going to be the best browser. Which they didn’t. They are finally adding CSS3 support which is great. No need to bash them for it. If this browser catches on with all the IE folks it will make our lives much much easier. One stylesheet, same look on all browsers. What we have all be waiting for.

  • Belinda

    Get out! Good on you Microsoft for stepping into 2010 ;-)

  • http://www.pixil.info PixilTV

    Yep, with extensions working on the mac; it’s been full time with chrome, safari and ff!

  • Victor A.

    Downloaded IE9 preview today and I must say that it’s quite a good start.

    On the plus side, I’m happy with the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript engine. They have a developer toolbar that’s on par with Dragonfly(Opera) and Dosera (Webkit).

    Still I’m disappointed with CSS 2.1 compatibility (they’re still scoring in the 50s on acid3 when everyone else is scoring in the 90s), and their DOM support isn’t what it should be (no support for getElementsByClassName, querySelector and querySelectorAll, just to name three). So personally I still think IE needs to bake a little longer before it can contend with Firefox and Webkit.

  • dave

    We’ve heard all this crap from them before and at the last minute it all gets left out just like they did on ie7 & 8.

    Another m$ classic, to little, to late.

    • dave

      The only good thing about this article is Belinda (right above) is smokin hot!! lol

      • Chris

        There’s no girls on the internets. :]

    • Craig

      I don’t recall Microsoft dropping any support at the last minute. Their announcements of IE7 and IE8 weren’t great, but their implementation has been what they announced. Drop the blind hate. You’ll be a happier person.

      • dave

        @craig
        I will drop the blind hate when m$ pulls their blind head out of their over-filled ass.

        Blame shifting

        Microsoft have got themselves into this mess by their own misguided strategy. By promising backwards compatibility, they’ve compromised the future direction of the browser. They’ve compromised Internet Explorer’s capability of challenging Firefox in any meaningful way.

        What particularly annoys me from today’s news about Internet Explorer, is Chris Wilson’s blame shifting. He puts the blame for Internet Explorer’s failings on web developers. For example:

        The answer is that developers of many sites had worked around many of the shortcomings or outright errors in IE6, and now expected IE7 to work just like IE6. Web developers expected us, for example, to maintain our model for how content overflows its box, even in “standards mode,” even though it didn’t follow the specification – because they’d already made their content work with our model.

        We web developers are now being directly blamed for supporting Internet Explorer! Microsoft released an inadequate browser and left us to deal with the problem on our own. Now Chris Wilson has the audacity to criticise us for trying our best to sort out the mess his team created.

        We realized that “Don’t Break the Web” should really be translated to “Don’t change what developers expect IE to do for current pages that are already deployed.”

        It seems that Microsoft’s promise of backwards compatibility is an empty one.

        Heaping the blame on web developers is unfair. This situation is entirely of Microsoft’s own doing. And they did nothing about it until Firefox became a serious threat.

        What those two quoted statements really say is that web cannot rely on Microsoft for standards compliance, backwards compatibility or future compatibility.

        http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/standards/EndOfLineInternetExplorer

  • http://www.xcellence-it.com/ Xcellence IT

    Great, I was waiting for this, this is great enhancement for IE ever… but it would indeed more interesting to see, how long it takes for general internet users to upgrade to IE9, as still today, large chunk of users are using IE6 & 7….

    Although we can not wait any longer to test it, and recommend it to our clients….

    thanks

  • http://emonweb.com Emonweb

    Its really good news for future web developers that IE decided to coming on track. But in corporate arena major emp still using IE6.

    • Cris

      Completely agree.

    • Daniel

      agreed

  • rajasegar

    I dont like IE at all, after starting to use FF, Chrome, and Opera, the performance factor has been a major concern in IE since a long time when compared to other browsers, also the installation requirements are far beyond expectations such Win7 or Vista sp2 [typical MS monopoly], the download size is also around 15 mb, double the size of FF for windows installation. Overall it is nothing but just a waste of time and money ….

  • http://www.macrosoft.co.il Alon

    lol.. ye right…

  • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk Stephen Webb

    This is a very interesting development that has long been waited for, especially from a web developers point of view. Internet Explorer is the browser that causes the most issues when it comes to getting websites to display and function correctly, with IE6 being a nightmare to design modern websites for.

    With CSS 3 and HTML 5 supports, IE9 is shaping up to be a real milestone in Microsofts browser history. The result will be allowing users a much richer internet experience, and allowing web developers to expirement with the new CSS and HTML versions.

    It will be good to see how Microsoft push IE 9 on its release. With website complexities and web security becoming a huge factors of todays internet, users require a modern browser. Maybe Microsoft will include the browser on a system update, or is that just wishful thinking?

  • http://cmtstudio.tumblr.com/ CMT Studio
  • http://spotdex.com Davidmoreen

    Heres the thing, IE9 may be a good browser, and not be a pain the ass when I’m trying to develop my next website. However, all that is useless if no one uses it. If someone is still running IE6 till this day and don’t update, then that does nothing for the problem :/

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