This week and next week things are going to get hot again as Mozilla and Microsoft are going to be rolling out their shiny new toys; Google has already released Chrome 9.0 on the 3rd of this month, Opera is believed to be working on theirs.
Internet Explorer has opted for a clean, modern design with integration for the Windows 7 and Vista platform. IE9 has come packed with a few new features such as Tracking Protection, ActiveX Filtering, a download manager and a tab page; to name a few. There has been slight controversy with regards to the operations of the Tracking protection and ActiveX Filtering operations as the former crumbles the online ad industry and the latter blocks flash-enabled websites and ActiveX controls. Along with these new features IE9 supports HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript, WebGL and other standards.
Performance improvements also comes in the basket as Microsoft has implemented a new ‘JavaScript Timer Frequency’ to the Power Options of Windows 7 and Windows Vista which effectively gives the user more battery control for JavaScript events; A near 50% reduction in RAM consumption from its predecessor IE8 with regards to additional opened tabs and web page loading times as well as installation times being on-par with that of Google Chrome.
Microsoft has outdone themselves by promising a user experience to topple that of its competitors, you yourself can find out if IE9 is a reinvention of the Internets’ web browsing experience or IE is just as it has always been.
My personal opinion
IE is an epic fail and it has always been but honestly after using IE9 they have made drastic improvements and I WILL dig into my archives and pull out a few beta websites I’ve designed before IE support was added and I WILL find out if they’ve fixed their design standards since they submitted to the W3C.
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