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IE9 - HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

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At the MIX conference, we demonstrated how the standard web patterns that developers already know and use broadly run better by taking advantage of PC hardware through IE9 on Windows.

First, we showed IE9’s new script engine, internally known as “Chakra”

We shared the data and framework that informed our approach, and demonstrated better support for several standards: HTML5, DOM, and CSS3.

We showed hardware-accelerated SVG support in IE9.

Finally, we announced the availability of the first IE Platform Preview for developers, and our commitment to update it approximately every eight weeks.

Of most interest for me was the teams choice to support the H.264 codec for HTML5 video. I wrote another detailed blog post on this topic - HTML5 <VIDEO/> + IE9.

Install the Developer Preview of IE9 and try the demos.

The blog posts:

The sessions from MIX:

Dean’s Day 2 Keynote about IE9

Introducing the IE9 Developer Platform Preview

In-depth Look at Internet Explorer 9 with John Hrvatin and Ted Johnson

HTML5: High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites with Jason Weber

HTML5: Cross-Browser Best Practices with Tony Ross

Internet Explorer Developer Tools with Jon Seitel

Advanced Web Debugging with Fiddler with Eric Lawrence

IE 9 Performance Pipeline Overview

IE 9 and SVG - Past, Present and Future of Vector Graphics for the Web

IE 9 - Surf on Metal with GPU Powered HTML5