Microsoft today offered developers an early glimpse of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at their 2009 Professional Developers Conference.
Although only at an early stage of development, the IE9 team already looks to have made some impressive leaps forward in terms of web standards support, particularly with regard to CSS3 selectors .
IE9 also looks set to boast support for CSS3 border-radius, an improved scoring in the Acid 3 test (if only slightly) and support for HTML5. You can read the full announcement on the IE blog here and we’ll bring you further announcements on the subject as more information becomes available.
example of standards support involves rounded corners. Here’s IE9 drawing rounded corners, along with the underlying mark-up:
Another example of standards support that matters to web developers is CSS3 selectors. Here’s a test page that some people in the web development community put together at css3.info; it’s a good illustration of a more thorough test, and one that shows some of the progress since releasing IE8:
Finally, IE 9 will surf on the GPU using DirectX/D2D. As well as speeding up performance all around, setting the platform up for CSS transforms etc, we also see side benefits such as nicer fonts.
