Comments on: Internet Explorer 9, a free upgrade for the web

By: 8675309

8675309 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:07 +0000

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/03/05/W3C-HTML-Working-Group-Pub lishes-New-Drafts.aspx more w3c bs

By: 8675309

8675309 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:47:41 +0000

if he knew you can download IEAK(Internet Explorer Administration Kit) which will allow you to customise what add-ons get installed every time you run the custom msi file

By: 8675309

8675309 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:43:12 +0000

cool use of ms tag

By: Tommo

Tommo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:26:24 +0000

@edward
Could you please paraphrase so everyone else can understand?
IE9 is not yet available for download because it is unrelased as of yet.
What ever else you’re going on about is a user issue, not a broswer issue.

By: edward westphal

edward westphal — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:20:59 +0000

i can not find a place to download ie 9.i do not want accesaries or blogs.it’s the reason why i use chrome instead of ie.they don;’t seem to have the forethought to make a page with a download button.

By: 8675309

8675309 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:22:39 +0000

i herd something about svg a few days ago
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2010/01/05/microsoft-joins-w3c-svg-wo rking-group.aspx

By: Rufus

Rufus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:21:54 +0000

“…Having already overcame the major implementation issues…”
having overcame? – I stopped reading there. Yikes

By: wonkette

wonkette — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:52:57 +0000

I will take a look at IE9, but it had better be much better than Safari or Chrome. I switched from FF to Safari because I could run it on both my PowerBook and my Toshiba tablet. I was tempted to try Chrome, but maybe I’ll give IE9 a trial run.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:34:02 +0000

Besides, both the imminent Google Chrome 4 and Firefox 3.7 are going to get bookmark synchronization and extensions (old news for Firefox) on a scale IE doesn’t seem to have plans to meet yet. And it still doesn’t do SVG.

I think the IE 9 improvements sounds *promising*, and that MS is most importantly on the right track here, but whether they’ll catch up with the competition remains to be seen. It’s far from certain to me, but one can hope they’ll become very competitive. This is always good for the end users. Switching to a hardware accelerated renderer could mean practically anything in terms of performance boosts though. From neglible on some systems, to major improvements. I’m feeling much more cautious than this article gives the impression of.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:29:32 +0000

“Having already overcame the major implementation issues, Dean was able to confirm this feature does not actually introduce any incompatibility issues besides a subtle difference in the layout of text as fonts are rendered by the more advanced DirectWrite engine.”

Too bad the DirectWrite rendering seem to suck, then. (it’s what WPF uses, right?)

The text seem thinner, and hardly even use subpixel rendering, but some form of antialiasing instead?

Ugh.