Microsoft today released a “platform preview” of Internet Explorer 9. This isn’t an IE9 beta, mind you; it doesn’t have the features you’d expect in a browser. It doesn’t even have an address bar for that matter. Instead, the IE9 Platform Preview serves as a sneak peek at some of the new Web technologies and standards that Microsoft is working on building into its flagship browser.
The Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview is a prototype that’s designed to show off the company’s effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, just as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now.
As we’ve heard before, the new Internet Explorer 9 includes broader support for many new popular standards like HTML5 and CSS3. The new browser also features a new Javascript engine codenamed “Chakra.” Other features include the addition of improved tabbed management browsing, as seen in a patent back January. Internet Explorer 9 will also use power from the GPU to render pages better.
Microsoft acknowledged: IE 9 Platform Preview is not yet a finished product.
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