PDC 2009 is happening as I type, Scott Gutherie is demoing Silver Light 4, just before the Gu, Windows client and Server division president – Steven Sinofsky showed early build demo of Microsoft Internet Explorer’s next version – IE 9. So far according to Sinofsky, it’s only been 3 weeks into development and this here’s what we know:
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Trident to continue as the rendering engine. (No Webkit)
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IE 9 as of now has an ACID score of 32/100 (better than IE8)
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CSS3 Support. Rounded corners coming to IE – final-fucking-ly.
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Hardware (GPU) accelerated rendering
Microsoft’s Channel 9 has uploaded some videos on IE 9’s development, I’ve embedded them here:
D2D rendering in IE9:
Look at the JavaScript Engine:
Though the ACID score isn’t exceptional compared to the other browsers, the fact that Sinofsky brought it up and talked about it, I’m fairly certain that there’ll be some major improvements on this front.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Thankfuly Trident is alive. I don’t want to be left with only WebKit and Gecko. 3 major browsers on WebKit would be too much plus I love the way Trident feels.