Internet Explorer 9: new details in March

Microsoft will inform a few more details on the next version of its Internet Explorer browser, Internet Explorer 9, in connection with its annual MIX10 for developers.

MIX10 event taking place taking advantage 15 to 17 March 2010 in Las Vegas in the United States, the head of Microsoft’s IE team speaks of changes and improvements brought to Internet Explorer 9, after the latest information released last November . There was also confirmed the release of a trial in the past even if the Redmond company made available the beta release of IE8 after the end of MIX08.


What needs to improve its competitive Microsoft to make Internet Explorer? The competition today is very dynamic with Firefox, Opera Beta 10.8 (which managed to harness the power of JavaScript in speed) and Google Chrome. Windows environment, then, the Safari browser is being used too much. Microsoft therefore can not ‘sit on their laurels, even though Internet Explorer remains the most widely used Web browser in the world with market share continuing to fall, however.

Internet Explorer 9 should have better compatibility with Web standards, and especially with CSS3 and HTML 5. Although it is not final versions, the first build of IE9 showed a higher score on the Acid3 test than IE8, but the score is far from 100%. As far as JavaScript performance instead, the new engine was announced IE9 faster than Firefox 3.6, but without being able to reach the performance of Google Chrome 4.0 or Opera Carakan extension 10.5. At the MIX10, Microsoft probably will make some reference to the acceleration DirectX-based graphics and support for Direct Write and Direct 2D.