{"id":2113,"date":"2009-11-18T23:11:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:59:38","slug":"ie-9-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/11\/ie-9-what-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"IE 9 &#8211; What We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">PDC 2009 is happening as I type, Scott Gutherie is demoing Silver Light 4, just before the Gu, Windows client and Server division president \u2013 Steven Sinofsky showed early build demo of Microsoft Internet Explorer\u2019s next version \u2013 IE 9. So far according to Sinofsky, it\u2019s only been 3 weeks into development and this here\u2019s what we know:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>Trident to continue as the rendering engine. (No Webkit)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>IE 9 as of now has an ACID score of 32\/100 (better than IE8)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>CSS3 Support. Rounded corners coming to IE \u2013 <em>final-fucking-ly<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Hardware (GPU) accelerated rendering<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p align=\"justify\">Microsoft\u2019s Channel 9 has uploaded some videos on IE 9\u2019s development, I\u2019ve embedded them here:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>D2D rendering in IE9:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object data=\"data:application\/x-silverlight-2,\" type=\"application\/x-silverlight-2\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"source\" value=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/App_Themes\/default\/vp09_10_20.xap\" \/><param name=\"initParams\" value=\"deferredLoad=true,duration=0,m=http:\/\/ecn.channel9.msdn.com\/o9\/ch9\/1\/7\/8\/5\/0\/5\/IE9D2D_ch9.wmv,autostart=false,autohide=true,showembed=true, thumbnail=http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/App_Themes\/default\/vp09_10_20.xap, postid=505871\" \/><param name=\"background\" value=\"#00FFFFFF\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=124807\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=108181\" alt=\"Get Microsoft Silverlight\" style=\"border-style: none\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/posts\/Charles\/IE-9-Standards-and-Interoperability\/\">Standards &amp; Interoperability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Look at the JavaScript Engine:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object data=\"data:application\/x-silverlight-2,\" type=\"application\/x-silverlight-2\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\"><param name=\"source\" value=\"http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/App_Themes\/default\/vp09_10_20.xap\" \/><param name=\"initParams\" value=\"deferredLoad=true,duration=0,m=http:\/\/ecn.channel9.msdn.com\/o9\/ch9\/2\/7\/8\/5\/0\/5\/IE9JSEngineEarlyLook_ch9.wmv,autostart=false,autohide=true,showembed=true, thumbnail=http:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/App_Themes\/default\/vp09_10_20.xap, postid=505872\" \/><param name=\"background\" value=\"#00FFFFFF\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=124807\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=108181\" alt=\"Get Microsoft Silverlight\" style=\"border-style: none\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Though the ACID score isn&#8217;t exceptional compared to the other browsers, the fact that Sinofsky brought it up and talked about it, I&#8217;m fairly certain that there&#8217;ll be some major improvements on this front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Sinofsky talks about Internet Explorer 9 at PDC09.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2009\/11\/ie-9-what-we-know\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7K6iCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[707,416,460,706],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-ie-9","tag-internet-explorer","tag-pdc","tag-pdc-2009"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}