Friday, August 13, 2010

Internet Explorer 9 Beta


Microsoft has finally announced the launch date of its latest browser, Internet Explorer 9. The first launch of a new beta version will be released on 15 September. Microsoft officially named the show "The Beauty of the Web" will be held in San Francisco.

The emergence of this already worthy IE9 tighten competition with other browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari. IE9 reportedly has a myriad of advantages, like support for HTML 5, CSS3, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), XHTML parsing, and video / audio format that supports tags H.264/MPEG4, MP3/AAC codecs.

In previous news, IE9 also briefly compared with Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test. Unfortunately this latest Microsoft browser can only run on Windows Vista operating system and Windows 7, so for Windows XP users must update its OS first. A beta version is quite good and seemed to have few weaknesses, Interested?