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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Released Today

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The long awaited IE9 beta is due to be released today showing off its new features of faster performance and improved compatibility with web standards. It has a sleek stripped down appearance that may just lure some of its defectors back to Explorer.

The most obvious difference is what you don’t see on the screen. For starters, there’s no branding beyond the logo on the Taskbar button—the familiar blue E. There’s no text or logo in the title bar, nothing that screams or even whispers “Internet Explorer.”
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i'm waiting for the beta to drop. I'm pretty excited. What is the engine that is used to allow it to score better on the acid test? I've heard it was webkit...but I bet it's a MS internal engine. Can anyone confirm this?
 
MajorDomo said:
The long awaited IE9 beta is due to be released today showing off its new features of faster performance and improved compatibility with web standards. It has a sleek stripped down appearance that may just lure some of its defectors back to Explorer.
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I'm interested. The minimalism is very appealing, especially since Chrome did away with its bookmarks menu, necessitating the bar's presence. Also, if it can leverage my gpu on my laptop (m11x's 335) it will be interesting to see how it compares to Chrome.
 
Wow, they really aren't fucking around with this version. MAJOR progress in nearly every area. Very impressive Microsoft.
 
Now is the time for Microsoft to dump Active X and gain back some market share, seeing as how as of late Fire Fox has become unstable and a victim of it's own customization.
 
This looks retty funky...

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Though it does seem to want to be chrome...
 
I'm excited for it. Firefox has become a mess as of late and Chrome's lack of a good default bookmark setup (and better fonts) makes it unusable for me.
I started using IE8 as my main browser a few months ago and I honestly really like it. This should build on that even more.
 
Chrome ← and → IE9

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The IE9 page takes up more room because i'm not signed into the chrome version so no post icons.

The only weird thing i've noiced so far is that on the image host (tiny pic) after uploading the video, there was no text gereated for URL etc...
 
it seems much faster than chrome...real tangible number tests will have to be done
 
When I click on download, nothing happens. It says thanks for downloading, but it doesn't happen
 
I can deal with the favorites location. Honestly, I rarely use the favorites drop down box these days. I just find using the address bar quicker for me. If I have any complaints, it's that the room for tabs is reduced. I'm not a heavy tab user, I generally don't go more than 6 or 8 tabs open at any given time, so It's just a minor annoyance, but I can see people who use a lot more wouldn't be pleased.

Speaking of tabs, FINALLY, the ability to Tear off a tab and create a new browser window with it. This is something I've wanted in IE for a very long time.

One of the biggest things I hear about Firefox vs IE is the speed in which you can open a new blank tab. Firefox was always quicker at it, though I never though it was a big deal. IE9 is now nearly instant in the task.

The new ability to Pin a web site to the task bar is nice. I'm not sure if I'll use it heavily. I like my taskbar fairly clean, but the ability to directly go to a jumplist of sections the web site defines is kind of cool.

So far, I like it. I haven't run into any problems in the hour or so I have been using it, but, time will tell.
 
Here is what they need to do to the interface...

Move the adress bar up and move the home,favorites,options icons to the left.

That way would be a lot easier and also give a lot more room for tabs.

I do like the fact that it auto smallerizes when you go to drag it instead of having to manually smallerize it first.
 
cyclone3d said:
Here is what they need to do to the interface...

Move the adress bar up and move the home,favorites,options icons to the left.

That way would be a lot easier and also give a lot more room for tabs.

I do like the fact that it auto smallerizes when you go to drag it instead of having to manually smallerize it first.
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yay for no edit button.... grrr.

Has the auto smallerize thing been there before and I never noticed it?
 
From everything I have heard, IE9 is going to be great. That said, that article is a bullshit piece of fluff. Case in point is the CSS standards portion that only has one example.

Code: 
    border-radius:152px 304px 228px 152px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 42px;
    padding: 12px;
(this creates a border with different size round corners that almost looks like the letter D)

The "simple" CSS code they provide for IE9 will produce identical results in Chrome, IE9, Safari & Opera. FireFox does need the -moz extension, and Safari used to need -webkit extension (more on that later.)

My bullshit detector first spotted that in order to make Chrome look bad, they individually listed the padding. They have basically expanded it out each piece of CSS to its most expansive declarations possible, there are powerful reasons why a web developer may choose to do this, but in the example given there is NO reason.

To make it work in all browers simply add the Firefox line above it:
Code: 
    -moz-border-radius:152px 304px 228px 152px;  
    border-radius:152px 304px 228px 152px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 42px;
    padding: 12px;
The leverages the C in CSS (Cascade) and assures maximum compatibility. So why is the -moz needed and formerly -webkit needed in this example? Simple, both of those browsers implemented the feature before it was a set standard, allowing early developers to adopt the feature. They add the -moz portion as to NOT screw people as MS was famous for. When a CSS3 feature becomes a set standard, the -moz portion will be dropped, or more specifically, the second border declaration will override the first. Developers don't need to re-adjust their code when this happens, it will just work.
 
Don't like the fav location either, also still no setting that I can find to launch InPrivate automatically instead of right clicking.
 
LOCO LAPTOP said:
Well there one website where Im having issues with IE9

http://www.companyofheroes.com

:(



but on IE8 it works fine. :rolleyes:
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Worked fine for me.

Hulahoops:

Got this on sunspider:

Total: 273.2ms +/- 24.1%
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So, what's the significance of this test? I realize it's a benchmark of Javascript, but you're number is significantly better than I got. I can only assume it's because I'm ran it on a laptop vs a desktop.

My Laptop scored 890 in ie9 but 1700 with FireFox. I can only imagine that it's the difference between hardware excelleration vs none.

I also took a look at a few other things. I opened a fresh IE and FF window and opened the same page. FF used more memory than IE did for the same site. 36mb vs 22 at my WHS Logon Screen.

57MB vs 26MB when logged into my server remotely.

60MB vs 30MB at the HardOCP main page.

I find that all interesting considering it's the current release of FF vs the Beta of IE.
 
First thing I did was turn everything back on LOL

The real key for me will be how good the extensions are. It's gotta have a strong showing in this area to compete with FireFox.

So far, it seems pretty nice.

Negative Decibel said:
i like the minimalist interface
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Hate it. Way too simplistic interface. Looks like I'll be using Firefox 4 when it's done unless this thing gets a lot better between now and the final.
 
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