Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

theheyes · 16 Mar 2010 at 21:23

A few tidbits on IE9 for those interested...

HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

When we started looking deeply at HTML5, we saw that it will enable a new class of applications. These applications will stress the browser runtime and underlying hardware in ways today’s websites don’t. We quickly realized that doing HTML5 right – our intent from the start – is more about designing our browser’s subsystems around what these new applications will need than it is about a particular set of features. From the beginning, we approached IE9 with the goal of enabling professional-grade, modern HTML5 support on top of modern hardware through Windows...

IE Blog post

There is a demo available too:

IE Test Drive Download

Note that this is not a browser. If you're going to bother with the demo I suggest you go to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ first to get a better before and after comparison.

All in all, not a mind blowing preview, but it does offer an interesting sneak peek at what future web applications could be like.

Ace T · 17 Mar 2010 at 12:39

Looks nice but will never be a Firefox killer

ruffneck · 17 Mar 2010 at 12:45

I personally dislike firefox these days, once you get the add-ons you want, it feels slow and bloated.

robinbredin · 17 Mar 2010 at 14:43

I personally dislike firefox these days, once you get the add-ons you want, it feels slow and bloated.

I agree. That IE 9 demo is quite good.

SiriusB · 17 Mar 2010 at 16:43

Ace T said:
Looks nice but will never be a Firefox killer

Unless FF becomes incredibly bad, nothing will kill it. Odd statement really.

Speaking of bad, since updating to 3.6 my FF is really slow at times!

As for the demo, seems OK. Every single demo came up with a script error though!

theheyes · 17 Mar 2010 at 16:57

Demo seemed alright for me. I did notice that some of those that ran like a dog in IE8 worked okay in Chrome though.