by Edward
17 August 2010 21:22
Microsoft announced that they are going to unveil Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) "Beta" next month(September 2010), at an event in San Francisco titled Beauty of the Web. While the browser wars for top spot are now between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, the latest version of IE9 will have to catch-up quickly. Microsoft seems to have missed a golden opportunity to make up for the failures of IE6 and IE7. Even Safari is making IE seem like an old browser and that is not even a target Windows platform browser.
By bringing out IE9 Microsoft seems to take something from Firefox Chrome. Some of the key features are that there are improved standards supports, as it scored an impressive 95% on the Acid 3 CSS test. IE9 also have better JavaScript and graphics performance, compared to previous versions. IE9 also implements enough of the HTML5 specification to raise the hope that stuffing rich content into browser plug-ins might not always be necessary.
As Microsoft is stating on its IE blog "IE9 offers consistent, fully hardware-accelerated text, graphics, and media, both audio and video", let’s hope Microsoft is starting to catch up and will continue to give users what they want from a browser experience.
