Tag: Internet Explorer 9

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 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.