Posted by Solutions Center on Fri, Aug 13, 2010
IT Support News | IE 9 will be unveiled to the wolrld in beta form, shortly. Recently, the Windows Team Blog announced that it will unleash Internet Explorer 9 on September 15 at a media event in the land of Lincecum - San Francisco, Ca.
Back in March, Microsft announced a "platform preview" of IE 9. According to PC World, "The Platform Preview was basically the IE 9 rendering engine presented in a plain windows - no toolbars, no extra features." The PC World article then goes on to say "IE 9 will feature better support for new Web technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. It'll also provide hardware acceleration for rendering graphics and text on a Web page and a faster JavaScript engine for better Web app performance, among other features."
To piggyback off of the PC World article, I've read numerous articles that have discussed how happy the IE 9 team is with their product. They're extremely excited about their HTML5 capabilities, and IE 9's hardware acceleration. In fact, an article on Tech Radar discussed just how excited Microsoft was with IE 9, and quoted Microsoft's Lead Program Manager for IE Performance, Jason Weber, who said " It's clear that HTML5 will enable a new class of applications that were previously not possible through standards based markup. and these applications can't be limited by the performance of today's browsers."
IE 9 will do HTML 5 the right way, and as Weber says, "That's our objective with Internet Explorer 9 and why we're so excited about hardware acceleration."
With September 15 just around the corner, look for IE 9 to come your way soon!