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Social Media - Search Engines - Browsers => Browsers: Google Chrome | Opera | Safari | Firefox => Topic started by: javajolt on May 05, 2010, 05:17:51 PM
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The Home Page
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Here's what you see when you first run the Preview: Note that there are none of the typical browser tools like a Back button or even an address bar or search field.
Open a Web Page
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You have to choose Open from the Page menu to load a Web page or local file using this simple entry box.
The Taskbar Icon
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The Preview's task bar icon is distinguished from released versions of IE's by the mouse pointer in angle brackets.
PCMag.com
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Here's how PCMagt.com shows up in the new browser engine. It loads quite snappily and is rendered nearly perfectly.
No Windows XP Allowed! ◄ (Irthepasty you will like this)
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If you try to install the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview in Windows XP, you'll see a message like this.
Spinning Icons
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Microsoft engineers have come up with this striking, animated 3D test to show off the browser engine's hardware acceleration.
Spinning Icons in Opera
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In Opera, notice that the frame rate drops to 12 per second in the same Spinning Icons test. IE9 never drops below 60 fps.
SVG Butterfly
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IE9 won't run all SVG graphics, but I found this butterfly that displayed perfectly.
SVG Butterfly Zoomed In
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Zooming in on the butterfly shows no degredation in sharpness of the image's edges.
CSS Tests
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The browser passes all of the CSS3.info site's Selectors Tests.
Acid3 Results ◄ (Irthepasty you're NOT gonna like this)
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The new browser platform ups its Acid3 browser standards score to 55 from 20 in Internet Explorer 8.
IE5 Mode
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Internet Explorer 9 uses modes of previous IE versions, including 5, 7, and 8, which you can force with hotkeys. I found that the IE7 mode didn't work EXACTLY like IE7, though. And this shot also shows a non-working SVG example.
No HTML5 Video Yet
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Sadly, HTML5 video is not yet implemented in the Platform Preview.
Pulsating Bubbles
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This XHTML page shows SVG basic shapes being animated using JavaScript.
No Canvas Support Yet
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There should be a clock hand here that you can start and stop, but IE9 doesn't yet implement HTML5 Canvas, so the box is empty.
Diagnostic Tool
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The Preview comes with tools for developers to test their sites.
HTML5 T-Shirt Designer
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A very interactive demo that shows the use of XHTML namespaces styled with CSS, DOM Style and the CSS3 border-radius and opacity properties to create the color-picking widget, DOM Events (e.g., addEventListener) to be notified of mouse events that enable drawing on an SVG surface.
Print Preview
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There's no actual Print feature in the Preview, but there's a Print Preview.