ie9 the story so far

Martin Beeby

@thebeebs @ubelly

IE9 the story so far

martin.beeby@microsoft.com

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people like to shout at me

Why do we build a browser?• The browser is the most used

application on a PC• We want to make sure we deliver the

best experience to Windows users• Have our previous browsers delivered

the best experience?

video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-FQN_v3AM

we all make mistakes

• We didn’t listen enough to other opinions

• We locked ourselves away

things have changed

Our Browser is released in 3 channels• The released browser• Platform Previews• http://html5labs.com

The released browser• Stable implementations of standards

ready for mass consumption.• No implementation is better than a

bad one

Platform Previews• No chrome just the browser• Shipped every 8-12 weeks

Html5labs.com• Early Prototypes• Not guaranteed to be in our final

browser• A place to play with volatile standards– IndexedDB–WebSockets - WebSockets 07 Protocol

Spec– FileAPI–Media Capture API

Platform Preview 1 – Mar 2010• CSS3- Border-Radius, Selectors,

Colour• SVG- Hardware Accelerated.• Commitment to update every 8

weeks• Acid 3 Score 55/100

http://bit.ly/platformpreview1

Platform Preview 2 – May 2010• CSS3 Media Queries• Hardware Accelerated HTML5• Acid Score 68/100

http://bit.ly/platformpreview2

Platform Preview 3 – June 2010• Canvas, Video, Audio• WOFF• ACID3 83/100

http://bit.ly/platformpreview3

Platform Preview 4 – Aug 2010• Audio, Video, Text and graphics now

Hardware Accelerated• 95/100 Acid 3 Score-– The failing 5 tests test two technologies:• SVG Fonts and • SMIL animation of SVG

http://bit.ly/platformpreview4

PP5 - IE9 Beta– Sep 2010• Interface• Site Pinning• Tabs

Platform Preview 6 – Nov 2010• CSS3 2d transforms• HTML5 Semantic Tags

http://bit.ly/platformpreview6

Platform Preview 7 – Nov 2010• JavaScript Performance

http://bit.ly/platformpreview7

IE9 Release Candidate– Feb 2011• GeoLocation• Tracking Protection• UI Improvements like tabs

http://bit.ly/platformpreview8

IE9 Release – March 2011• Faster JavaScript• Addressed 17,000 externally reported

bugs

http://www.beautyoftheweb.co.uk

http://www.beautyoftheweb.co.uk

http://getie9.com

I know what you’re thinking

microsoft have a standards based browser?

yeah right!

next you’ll be telling me they bought skype

Similarities not our differences

sundarksom http://crazymultimedia.blogspot.com/

@charliejennings

-webkit-transform: rotate(-10deg);-moz-transform: rotate(-10deg);

-ms-transform: rotate(-10deg);-o-transform: rotate(-10deg);

The future• IE10 release every 8-12 weeks• Expect us to use the power of the

machine more and more

IE10 - Platform Preview 1 – April 2011• CSS3 multi-column layout• CSS3 grid layout• CSS3 flexible box layout• CSS3 gradients• ES5 strict mode.

http://bit.ly/platformpreview7

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

• Try IE9 and IE10• Feedback bugs

thankyou

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