After the release of Windows 7, the imminent return to market of Office and the radical renewal that showed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft has begun to walk the way to renew one of its flagships, Internet Explorer. With its sights set on the compatibility, the inclusion of web standards and speed, the Redmond company wants to give a boost to your browser to try to halt the slide in market share year after year is harvested. It appears that these improvements will elevate the level graphical browser to the point that the world’s largest maker of graphics cards, nVidia has devoted a few words in its official blog for the new features that will IE9: “Internet Explorer 9 is the first browser designed to take advantage of the possibilities of the ‘hardware’ modern.
Despite the suspicions and have not been clear when confirming that supports each and every one of the HTML 5 standard, since the company did confirm that “they are responsible” in this aspect. Microsoft has also launched a new JavaScript engine, code-named Chakra.
It will be specifically designed to make better use of dual core processors, using the second to compile JavaScript code to native code.
Since 2004, when it garnered 90% to the latest figures which give a 61% share, according to NetApplications. The growing pressure of Firefox and the entry into the market for a powerful player – as Google and its ‘browser’ Chrome – has forced the multinational to make sacrifices.
With the dual objective of promoting the upgrade to Windows 7 and make Internet Explorer 9 is a modern browser and advanced the ninth version of IE is not compatible with Windows XP, the operating system that brought under the arm now “undesirable” Internet Explorer 6.
Despite being in a very early stage of development, engineers in Redmond have obscured some keys during the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, names are: HTML 5, CSS, Java and acceleration for ‘hardware’.
With regard to who is called to be the new web standard, HTML 5, Microsoft has decided to be cautious. Keep in mind that the company has been pushing in recent months its own competitor to Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and HTML 5 is called to definitively bury these plug-in, both at the same Silverlight as Adobe Flash or Sun’s JavaFX.
In Microsoft are aware that their older browsers do not reach the speed of Firefox or Chrome, however, seems to IE9 does seem able to reduce this distance, but not outperform their competitors, at least at this early stage of development.
The CSS support is also improved, with particular emphasis on calls that show rounded corners. While the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) implemented these properties for CSS3 Microsoft did not include it in IE8.
The last point seems to be strong where Microsoft is focusing its efforts on accelerating for ‘hardware’. The new Microsoft browser will use the acceleration for ‘hardware’ of DirectX to improve graphic reproduction and AJAX.
The result is improved graphics inside the browser, being the first to offer acceleration for ‘hardware’ scalable vector graphics (SVG). IE 9 will also be the first browser to improve engine performance with the advantage of JavaScript to change between CPU and GPU as well as offering HTML 5 powered graphics card (GPU).