Internet Explorer 9 : MIX10 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft on Tuesday indicated its intention to stay competitive in the Web browser battle, which announces the availability of the Internet Explorer Platform Preview 9.
Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which is characterized IE9 as “the first Web browser to take the standard patterns for developers to use and run them better on modern computers through Windows.” Of the “best”, Hachamovitch IE9 means that supports Web standards, and fast. IE9 supports many new elements in HTML5, and the development of next-generation standard for Web pages, including CSS3, are vector graphics (SVG), analysis of the various departments, and features for H.264/MPEG4 and MP3/AAC encoding. Mozilla fans will note the absence of Wag ogg Vorbis Theora support.
IE9 also includes support for hardware acceleration, to accelerate the making of the text and graphics.
“IE9 is the first browser to provide full hardware-accelerated SVG support,” Hachamovitch said in a blog post. “And IE9 developer tools support SVG as well, and we are excited to see what developers build on top of modern equipment with a platform to have a great performance and internal consistency.”
IE9 features a new JavaScript engine called “Chakra” to develop a preliminary version by IE9 Mozilla Firefox 3.6 wept in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark test, just behind the Apple Safari 4.05 Google Chrome 4 and 5, and Opera 10.5.
Perhaps the most prominent, IE9 performs about six times faster than IE8 on this test.
IE9 scored 55/100 on the Acid3 test, which assesses the Web page of compliance with standards. Firefox 3.6 log 92/100. But Hachamovitch insists IE9 and the result will improve as it moves toward the release of general.
Microsoft also committed to contributing to the ongoing development of the jQuery JavaScript Library and joint work with jQuery ASP.NET in order to improve the development process for web applications. And that it has released software development kits for the Open Data Protocol (odatÃ), and that the data protocol based on HTTP and maize, which facilitates the exchange of data between the net, Java, PHP], Objective C and Java.
For Microsoft, IE9 there must be a hit. The company’s share of the browser market, which includes versions of Internet Explorer 6 to 8, may fall more or less steadily over the years. This was a result of security problems, especially in IE6 and IE7, and not keep up with competition.
In February, Microsoft had 61.58% of the global browser market, according to NetApplications, down from about 80% two years ago.
In a blog post last November, when details about IE9 not yet been released Asa Dotzler, Mozilla director of community development, and predicted thatMicrosoft would surprise everyone with a serious effort to restore credibility in the browser race.
“Microsoft had dug a huge hole when abandoned by most of the population IE (6) and the Internet from 2001 to 2006,” he wrote. “The early efforts in ramping up with IE 7 was a big disappointment to most web developers and in spite of their efforts with the IE 8 was much better, and they are still at least a generation behind the modern browsers.”
The gap between the generations, but seems to be closing rapidly. A follow-up post on Tuesday, he wrote: “Welcome again, Microsoft!”
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