Microsoft [MSFT] have made Internet Explorer 9 available for download as a developer preview. (download available at ietestdrive.com)
Internet Explorer 9 is expected to support HTML5 and have a new JavaScript engine that MS have codenamed Chakra. Also support for CSS3 and SVG2 is said to be included.
What Microsoft want to achieve with Internet Explorer 9 (or IE9) is a faster browsing experience that gives a better user experience which will be welcomed by anybody. Hopefully security is also on their to-do list for the browser along with better compatibility with websites which often render incorrectly when compared to firefox for example. [Read more…]