Microsoft launches a preview version of "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9)"

The company's latest WEB browser revealed by Microsoft that being in development stage last November "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9)"Preview version of the new version has been launched.

In just a few weeks from the start of development, we succeeded in almost eliminating the difference in processing speed of JavaScript between other companies' browsers such as' Google Chrome 'and' Firefox '. In addition, when displaying a web page, a graphic board (GPU Although IE 9 is supposed to realize faster and higher-quality display in order to use, it is possible to check exactly what it is.

Details are as below.
IEBlog: HTML 5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE 9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

According to the official blog of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it is said that today we launched the platform preview version of "Internet Explorer 9 (IE 9)" for developers.

The platform preview version of IE 9 supports HTML 5 expected as a replacement for Adobe's "Flash" and Microsoft's "Silverlight", and SVG format image display using hardware support.

In addition, by adopting a JavaScript engine called "Chakra" that executes scripts using a multi-core CPU, the effective speed of JavaScript is dramatically improved compared to IE 8, and performance closer to the latest browsers made by other companies It has become.

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Also, it is aimed at checking how much the web browser complies with a specific web standard "Acid 3Although the score of the test is 55, which is much lower than that of other companies' browsers, the score will rise further in the process of development.

By the way, the corresponding OS is Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP 2, and Windows Vista users are required to have Internet Explorer 8 and DirectX 2 D (D 2 D) installed in advance.

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Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos