There is now a year since Internet Explorer 8 was released, and we take a look at plans for Internet Explorer 9.
Under develop fair MIX in Las Vegas, presented Microsoft today updated information on the new Internet Explorer 9 The company has taken the feedback and suggestions from thousands of developers, consumers and businesses under development.
To make the browser even faster, Microsoft has introduced its new JavaScript engine, internally known as "Chakra". Internet Explorer 9 will support HTML5, DOM, CSS3, XHTML and SVG standards, which is good news for Web developers among others.
In addition to the technical improvements, it will now also our easier to get with them how the different versions of IE9 is built up. For example, it is already set up a so-called "Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview" on http://ietestdrive.com. Here, developers can easily see what's coming in IE9. This will be updated to the latest version every other week until the beta release, so that developers can follow the developments.
IE9 is the first browser that really makes use of the benefits that today's PCs have in terms of hardware, which allows graphics and performance is improved. For example, it has hardware accelerated SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), graphics support is moved from the CPU to the GPU, so that the new JavaScript engine can use more CPU power. IE9 is also first with HTML5 through the GPU.
