Tag: IE9
Maxthon 3.0 Receives GPU Rendering Support
Maxthon team has released a technical preview of Maxthon 3.0 web browser, which now includes a GPU rendering support for smoother text on Web pages.
Here’s an example:
“The current implementation of GPU rendering is merely an initial step. The final version will be more powerful and will support more features”, Jeff Chen, CEO of Maxthon said.
As of today, Firefox 3.7 and Maxthon 3.0 are the only browsers to include GPU accelerator support, with Internet Explorer 9 soon to follow.
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Microsoft MIX10 Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Videos
Microsoft MIX10 videos were just released . You can now watch and/or download them (~2GB total) via visitmix.com
- Dean’s Day 2 Keynote about IE9
- In-depth Look at Internet Explorer 9 with John Hrvatin and Ted Johnson
- HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites with Jason Weber
- HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices with Tony Ross
- Internet Explorer Developer Tools with Jon Seitel
- Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler with Eric Lawrence
Alternatively, you can visit our YouTube channel and watch them there.
Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for the news tip.
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Internet Explorer 9 Developer Preview Now Available, No XP Support
Today Microsoft has released developer preview build of Internet Explorer 9 web browser. Although it does not include IE9 user interface (no tabs, no address bar), and/or never announced features, it’s equipped with new JavaScript rendering engine (codename Chakra) and hardware acceleration feature.
How does it stack up against its competitors? Continue Reading
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 3.6 vs. Chrome 4 vs. Safari 4
IEBlog has published Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (not final version) SunSpider benchmark results and compared them to Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 3, Google Chrome 4, Safari 4 and latest Webkit Nightly build.
Let me tell you, this graph looks promising so far: Continue Reading
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) to Support Hardware Accelerated Rendering
You wanted more details about upcoming Internet Explorer 9 release? Here, you have it.
Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live divisions said that IE9 will take an advantage of a computer’s graphics hardware to better render online images, videos, animations and other graphics.
“We think that the hardware you run on should shine through the browser”, Sinofsky Said.
Smooth graphics rendering is also included into Internet Explorer 9 features tree. In addition, he said that team has yet to decide, on how much of HTML5 features IE9 is going to support.
With improved HTML/CSS markup languages support, Sinofsky also demoed IE’s ability to create rounded borders.
No further details or preliminary release dates were revealed.
Stay tuned.
Via SeatlePi.
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Silverlight 4 Plans to Emerge Tomorrow
Neowin reports that Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is going to announce plans for Internet Explorer 9 tomorrow, at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
Also, Scott Guthrie shall reveal more details about Silverlight 4.
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Internet Explorer 9 Won’t Use Webkit
With all the rumors spreading around, Hachamovitch has confirmed to Ars that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE9) won’t use an open source engine called Webkit.
It was also stated that Internet Explorer 8 is not the last version of IE as some might thought.
Internet Explorer 9 Code Named Triton?
During the old interview on Internet Explorer’s ACID2 pass, interviewer congratulates IE team and mentions “Triton” (3:25), the codename of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). Of course, that could be just a spelling mistake (Trident) or he actually knows something.
Check video here.
What do you think?
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