Most Internet users agree that Microsoft made good progress with Internet Explorer 8 compared to previous releases of the web browser. Internet Explorer 8 introduced some interesting new features, increased the performance of the web browser by a lot compared to previous versions and introduced some new security concepts that made the web browsing experience more secure. It still did not come close performance wise to web browsers like Google Chrome but the difference was not that big anymore.
Microsoft has now confirmed that they started working on Internet Explorer 9 and it seems that they have big plans for this browser. Three demo videos have been released by Channel 9 that show some of the Internet Explorer 9 developers showcasing some of the improvements that they already build into the web browser. The Sunspider Javascript benchmark comparison looks very interesting as the new Internet Explorer 9 JavaScript engine closes the gap to Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 to about 100 ms.
Standards and Interoperability
JavaScript performance:
Surfing On The GPU
The most interesting changes that have been announced so far:
- New Javascript engine
- GPU enhanced page rendering
- Better interoperability and web standards support
It is interesting that Microsoft is giving the public a chance to view the progress that they are making. They already changed their strategy during the Windows 7 development phase where they created blogs, videos and other means of showcasing the development progress and features to the public.
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I am getting the message that the videos are removed because they crossing the ten minutes (youtube)border. Do you have another link?
And do I understand it correctly that now malignant components can not be installed any more?
Fixed, now they are showing in their original format (Silverlight).
Opera started work on hardware acceleration in 2008.
http://my.opera.com/core/archive/monthly/?month=200806
You can see the video of Opera running fully hardware accelerated on that site.
Hey, maybe the IE developers will figure out how to fix the “connecting” problem in IE8 when they release IE9?
90% of the time, I can’t use IE8 because it gets stuck “connecting” to any website. No similar problems EVER w/FF! I’ve turned off all add-on’s and disabled everything I can in IE8 but still no success in solving this problem.
And it is not me alone with this problem. Do a Google search on “ie8 connecting”. No wonder Microsoft keeps losing IE users.
Thanks for the change Martin this is much better i can really watch the now with main, Microsoft® Silverlight 4.0.41108 Beta