Internet Explorer 9 developer preview

RobinSchouten said:

HayDee said:

How about CSS3 support? Does it display text shadows, border rounded corners and alpha channel (rgba()?

Download it and see for yourself, there is CSS3 support and you can test it in the testdrive.

Or hit Page > Open and goto another site

utterly amazing - speed and fluidity is just brilliant..
can't wait for release..

- superb!!

Hi BugMeister
Here's a Bug for you


It doesn't render FLASH properly

Look at the 2 pics from the BBC's home page : ist pic is the page rendered via IE9 preview, 2nd pic is the page rendered by (32 bit) IE8.

The IE9 preview is missing the little square clock on the big orange BBC title bar.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi BugMeister
Here's a Bug for you

It doesn't render FLASH properly

What you expected everything working 100%? \

Flash rendering bugs are Adobe's responsibility.

Hi dmex
Since many many sites use flash one wants to see how IE9 will render them.

IE9 won't be very popular if 60% of sites are rendered incompletely -- I agree that maybe another standard for a "flash look alike" needs to be implemented but saying that Flash is adobe's responsibility when it's the "de-facto" standard is a bit like saying to a 3rd party developer - My software doesn't work because the NTFS file system is Microsoft's responsibilty.

MS have flash working with IE8 so they know where the hooks are and can insert code to work with it of course.

Cheers
jimbo

jimbo45 said:

Hi dmex
Since many many sites use flash one wants to see how IE9 will render them.

IE9 won't be very popular if 60% of sites are rendered incompletely -- I agree that maybe another standard for a "flash look alike" needs to be implemented but saying that Flash is adobe's responsibility when it's the "de-facto" standard is a bit like saying to a 3rd party developer - My software doesn't work because the NTFS file system is Microsoft's responsibilty.

MS have flash working with IE8 so they know where the hooks are and can insert code to work with it of course.

Cheers
jimbo

So when the next version of Windows comes out and the programs I develop don't work, Microsoft should fix them all for me and do it for free because they know what was changed?

Your dreaming, Get real.

Bill said:

dmex said:

IE's build tag usually matches the host operating system...

Windows 7 RTM: 6.1.7600.16385.090713-1255

IE8: 8.0.7600.16385
IE9: 9.0.7745.6019

I can only assume Windows builds have been progressing :)

Do you think Build 7745 could be SP1?

-Bill

SP1 will have an even later build number, This is just the build of Win7 their using internally with all the patches and improvements to date since RTM that will be included with SP1