Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Sports New User Agent String - The sho. Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos. IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers. We’re just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, and wanted to show an early look at some of the work underway on Internet Explorer 9. At the PDC today, in addition to demonstrating some of the progress on performance and interoperable standards, we showed how IE and Windows will make the power of PC hardware available to web developers in the browser.
Specifically, we demonstrated hardware-accelerated rendering of all graphics and text in web pages, something that other browsers don’t do today. Web site developers will see performance gains and other benefits without having to re-write their sites. Performance Progress. Browser performance involves many different sub-systems within the browser. Different sites – and different activities within the same site – place different loads and demands on the browser.
For example, two news sites might look similar to a user but have very different performance characteristics. The script engine is just one of these browser subsystems. Microsoft Winning Fans Early with Internet Explorer 9 Preview - Earlier this week Microsoft unveiled a preview of the engine behind its next-generation Web browser, Internet Explorer (IE) 9. Microsoft is still diligently working to convince many customers to make the switch from the archaic IE6 to the current IE8, but the march of development never stops so Microsoft is already hard at work on the next version as well. Justin Saint Clair, Internet Explorer program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a post on the IEBlog "The Internet Explorer Platform Preview is a light-weight frame around the core IE platform which includes the rendering and layout, object model, parsing, and script engines. It's a way to try out the platform, and the experience improvements we're making to performance, standards support and interoperability, enabling "the same markup" to work.
" Saint Clair clarified "We will update [the Platform Preview] approximately every 8 weeks on the road to Beta. In other words, this is not a beta release of the IE9 browser. Internet explorer 9 free download. JavaScript Magazine Blog for JSMag. Listen to this week’s podcast (September 9, 2011) Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It’s inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles (hey, I think I remember listening to that talk live!). Addy has some short-attention-spanned (and “weekly roundup” people such as myself) in mind as he gives a tweet-sized summary: Decouple app. architecture w/module,facade & mediator patterns.
The basic idea is that a webpage is a collection of modules, some of which can (and do) talk to each other. The basic solution is decoupling through a pub/sub system. You may already have experience with loose decoupling in JavaScript in other ways. Deferreds are also another practical use of loose coupling that you may already be familiar with. It’s a busy week for Yahoo. Deck.js. IE9 | The Coffeehouse. AndyC said: magicalclick said:*snip* "Why would app break when I didn't replace IE6? I am only installing a separate version, which didn't affect anything that's is already there. At least give me the option to replace IE6 or not. If I choose no, then, all those app will remain IE6 and I can still use newer IE in addition to that.
Basically don't replace IE6 and don't change registry, simple as that. "But consider applications like Maxathon, which use the IE rendering engine and want to get the latest version when an update is applied. In that case, Maxathon can simply push a patch to grab the new IE instead? Application.IE.Verion = Static.IE6; // lock in IE6 Or Application.IE.Version = Dynamic.IE6; // IE6 and up. I wouldn't raise this issue if it weren't a major problem.
So if I am a dev that requires functions from IE and yet I know half of my customers are IE6 only. 1) uses a library with multi-versioning. 2) complettly embeded the entire rendering engine in my app. Problem with internet explorer 9 | LongTail Video | Home of the. Microsoft Confirm IE9 Development. The browser developers love to hate is being rebuilt.
Microsoft started work on Internet Explorer 9.0 a few weeks ago and showed off some of the new features at their Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. So what can we expect? Improved CSS and JavaScript IE9 will offer CSS3 selectors and rounded corners (it’s about time). Direct2D (D2D) IE9 will support hardware-accelerated text and graphics using Microsoft’s new Direct2D (D2D) system. Browser text without Direct2D: Browser text with Direct2D: According to Dean Hachamovitch, IE General Manager: Our goal is to deliver better performance across the board for real-world sites, not just benchmarks. Although would Dean be saying that if IE wasn’t languishing at the bottom of the benchmark tables?! Release Date? No IE9 release date has been announced but I suspect it’s at least a year away.
Personally, I’m glad Microsoft is continuing to upgrade Internet Explorer. Microsoft sponsors new Web font standard | Deep Tech. With a surprise boost from Microsoft, the promise of rich typography on the Web just got a big step closer to reality. The software company's involvement emerged Monday with sponsorship of a newer effort at the World Wide Web Consortium to standardize Web-based fonts with technology called the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). It's a fresh indicator of Microsoft's serious engagement with new Web standards--and it's a big boost for designers' attempts to stretch the Web beyond just the few typefaces that today can be expected to be already installed on people's computers. It's not unusual to see Mozilla and Opera Software as WOFF backers--the two browser makers have been trying to advance the Web state of the art for years. But after years of going its own way, Microsoft has shown new interest in Web standards and now is a powerful ally that's sponsoring the submission of WOFF to be a W3C standard.
The W3C chartered a new Web fonts group in March to standardize WOFF. It's not imminent, though. Microsoft gets some heat over HTML5 plans. Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 -- and hence support for the upcoming HTML5 standard -- to users of its older Windows XP operating system. Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference in March that IE9 won't be offered for XP. The reason, technical evangelist Giorgio Sardo said at the Web 2.0 Expo on Wednesday, is that IE9 is a "modern browser," and getting the benefits of the hardware acceleration and other performance gains that it will offer requires a "modern OS. " [ Microsoft recently said HTML5 is the "future of the Web," but others claim HTML5 is far from killing off Web plug-ins . | See InfoWorld's June 2009 report: Could HTML5 kill Flash and Silverlight?
] That didn't sit well with Alex Russell, a member of Google's Chrome browser development team. "You describe a world where users are getting left behind," Russell said. The panelists were largely complementary of IE6.