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Test Drive

Interested in checking out the new Web platform capabilities of Internet Explorer 9?

Source & Download: Microsoft

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Here is some more info. on this:

Microsoft IE9 developer preview with HTML5 support ready for download
March 16th, 2010

The IE 9 Platform Preview doesn’t include the IE 9 user interface; instead, it is the plumbing, specifically the new Microsoft JavaScript engine (which is codenamed “Chakra”) and the new graphics subsystem, coupled with a home page full of test sites. There’s no back button and no built-in security. It’s basically the IE 9 rendering engine and early developer tools.

Microsoft officials will show off the IE 9 developer preview and discuss Microsoft’s planned support for more of the emerging HTML5, CSS3 and SVG2 standards with that product during the Tuesday morning Mix 10 keynote.

“We love HTML5 so much we actually want it to work,” quipped Dean Hachamovitch, the General Manager of the IE team, during a briefing I attended at Microsoft last week about IE 9.

As Microsoft supports more of the HTML5, CSS3 and SVG2 markup, the company expects its ACID3 ratings to go up, officials said. At the Professional Developers Conference in November, Microsoft officials showed a very early build of IE 9, which earned an ACID3 score of 32. The build out today is up to 55, according to company officials.

HTML5 applications are a lot richer and demanding, in terms of graphics and speed than Ajax applications. So it’s logical they’ll work better on multi-core machines where the browser can take advantage of multicore performance, Microsoft officials argue. That’s why Microsoft’s new JavaScript engine is built to take advantage of two cores, with the second core compiling JavaScript down to native machine code to help speed up the browser. (Once the native code is available, there’s no need to use interpreted code on Core 1, meaning an app spends less time in JavaScript.)

Microsoft is planning to deliver a lot more preview builds of IE 9 before it hits beta. In fact, the team is committing to delivering an update every eight weeks, and to interact with developers via the Microsoft Connect feedback loop. Microsoft officials wouldn’t say when to expect the first IE 9 beta or to provide any kind of ship date target for the final release. (I’m still betting Microsoft will deliver the final a few months before Windows 8 ships, in 2011 or so.)

Microsoft’s high-level goals for IE 9 include making the browser snappier, maintaining compatibility with Web sites at at least the same level as IE 8 and, ultimately, enabling developers to use the same markup across IE 9 and other non-Microsoft browsers. That last of these three guiding principles is more theoretical and real at this point, but it’s interesting Microsoft is thinking this way.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=557 ... ;post-5572

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It won't download for me, I get a connection error, says it can't display the webpage

I am not a developer andway so it really doesn't matter

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It downloaded fine here using IE8 & choosing Save button, after the Dl I clicked the Run button & it installed quickly in Windows 7 Ult. X86.
There are several Demos that have motion and choices of size or speed & that can be dragged around the window to change the perspective.

At this stage for me it’s just another toy to play with, here are a few screenys.

About IE9


Demos


Flying Images



TShirt


Falling Balls

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I read a offering from 1- developer w/ a application to add a address bar & just enough to test your webpage.
http://www.webstylecenter.com/ie9/

Just need to find some websites that are using HTML5 or any of the other new additional features included w/ this preview.

I gave the above "Addressbar mini-tool" a spin, its a little funky but does work for the features listed, still no back button though.

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