IE9 Platform Preview Feedback

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EricLaw [MSFT] — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:06:29 GMT

@Alina: Thanks, it's a known issue that the IE9PP1 Accept string doesn't include the XHTML MIME type.

@Esveegee: No, IE9 Platform Preview #1 does not support SVGZ.

Yes, please file any bugs you find!

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Esveegee — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:58:38 GMT

Is svgz-support (compressed svg) implemented in the current version?

My svg-based application crashes IE9. Is there any point trying to report this to Microsoft, or should I just wait for new releases?

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Alina Friedrichsen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:18:39 GMT

And please support the SVG <script /> Element and embedding SVG with the XHTML <object /> Element. So that the SVG code can clearly seperated from the XHTML code. Thanks!

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Alina Friedrichsen — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:39:13 GMT

The HTTP Accept Header is completely broken in the IE9 Platform Preview. Please insert the application/xhtml+xml MIME-Type in it!!! Please!

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ieblog — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:05:15 GMT

@Ansel Adams: We've already shown off color management in IE9. The press wrote about this earlier this month:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/platform-preview-gives-web-developers-first-taste-of-ie9.ars/2

"In another demo, Color Management, Microsoft made sure to show how high it was placing the bar. IE9 supports ICC versions 2 and 4 (IE8 supported neither)."

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George Dolan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:34:56 GMT

I have 64 Bit Tech, on my XPS 600 Dell I am having so much trouble opening photos in sites such as social networking... I wish you had a better way to open photos and other things...without the problem of java errors and adobe,...Adobe has not developed a flash player for 64 bit... conflicting each other...also the blocking of pop ups and active X so much interference with all these...

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DT — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:53:27 GMT

@ie8 user

The picture on bing.com isn't an image, it's a background image. You can grab it with "Save Background As" on the right-click menu.

Now on this one hand this is a little confusing as most users won't know or care about the difference between a background image and an embedded image. But I assume (not having tested this) that this allows for the situation where there is a image with transparent areas over a background and you can get either the image or the background image rather than one or the other being inaccessible.

If translucent images become too seriously into vogue I can see the Save Picture As functionality becoming less and less helpful...

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sy — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:13:25 GMT

@DanielHendrycks

“How is Theora at the mercy of lawyers?”

I think it was meant that unknown, so-called submarine patents may exist that target Theora.

“People aspiring to come up with the next YouTube will not get anywhere because they will have to spend tons of money paying for licensing fees.”

If these people actually come up with something great, the royalties won't be a problem, since they’ll be making money. If they come up with something not that great, they won’t be paying, since, having a small number of subscribers, they’ll be exempt from paying.

Let's see how H.264 licensing works in detail. If you’re selling video, you pay $0.02 per item in royalties. So, say, for a $1 or $2 music video you pay $0.02. How is that not reasonable? Now, if you're selling subscriptions to video, you're not paying anything if the video length is less than 10 minutes, and you're not paying anything if the number of your subscribers is less than 100'000. Then, it becomes $2'500 per year for 100'000–250'000 subscribers, $5'000 for 250'000–500'000 and $10'000 for 1'000'000–unlimited. And that is all. Well, if you have a million subscribers, you sure must be making obscene amounts of money on advertising, and the $10'000 hardly even registers on that scale.

Finally, long-term, the H.264 patents are going to expire. It will happen in 2028. After that, there will be no royalties at all. And H.264 will remain supported in every browser, just like JPGs are still supported after more than 15 years. So, long-term, we’ll end up with a more scalable and more quality/power-efficient codec as a standard for internet video, which is great.

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Afonso Tereso — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:42:50 GMT

sometimes the ie9 crashes when i disable pop ups... but the rest hasnt given me much hard time.

ill keep reporting you when ill find something else.

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Chris — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:57:21 GMT

Could the Platform Preview not be made available on XP, allowing people to see that their pages work fine in IE 9, without the hardware acceleration?

I'd like to make use of the new HTML 5 features in IE, as well as SVG, but without being able to see that it works, I envision it not being made use of on a live site for IE9'ers.

All it'll mean is Firefox, Opera, etc will get the best experiences available, while IE 9 will be restricted to <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8">, which would be a real shame, as it seems IE 9 will hold its own, and then some when it's finally released.