Internet Explorer 9 Released – Available for download

Microsoft finally has a browser that can be played with the greats. Since we’ve covered extensively IE9 ya, I’m not going to rehash all the details, but here is a breakdown of the most important developments.

First, Microsoft is the first browser to ship with hardware accelerated rendering. The GPU gets to work through the use of Direct2D for drawing, and word processor new in Vista and 7 DirectWrite, handles text. The latter makes what I think is an important issue: the text representation is absolutely terrible in many web sites. DirectWrite produces sources that forms accurately – that is the way Mac OS X does. This is fine if all the operating system you use, but only when an application uses, stands out as an eye-sore. Windows ClearType makes text so they are sharp – How to be condemned. Mixing the two is careless.

IE9 could also dispense with rainbows and unicorns, but the text rendering is ultimately a deal breaker for me.

Another important consequence of the hardware acceleration is that Internet Explorer 9 does not run on Windows XP. I consider this a plus point – I think Windows XP intolerable and has to die – but those of you still cling to that piece of garbage will not be able to use IE9.

http://i54.tinypic.com/28wnssj.jpgAnother important feature is the new JavaScript engine Chakra, which offers some impressive performance improvements through Internet Explorer 8. IT multiprocessing, one thread runs the script in real time, while another thread compiled and optimized in the background.

Of course, one of the main attractions was the support for modern Web standards, an area where Microsoft has been behind almost a decade. The information here can be found in the guide for developers of Internet Explorer 9, which details all the new things on this front.

There are plenty of other nice stuff and the ability to set the sites to the taskbar in Windows 7 that Web developers can even create jumplists to their sites (pin Facebook to Windows 7 taskbar and you’ll see). The interface itself, of course, follows the trend set by Chrome to focus on content rather than the user interface, and that’s a good thing.

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