Can Internet Explorer 9 Get Microsofts Mojo Back?
With improved speed and support for HTML 5, Internet Explorer 9 could be Microsoft’s next step toward restoring its old mojo. Microsoft hasn’t shown very much of its next Web browser, and hasn’t announced a release date. The most you can do is preview some of Internet Explorer 9’s capabilities, which say nothing about the browser’s user interface. Still, what Microsoft has shown so far is enough to get people excited. Image courtesy of Microsoft Previous versions of Internet Explorer have lagged behind other browsers on speed and support for new technology — the problems that Microsoft is working on with IE9. While Microsoft used to insist that Javascript speed wasn’t that important, it’s now using benchmarks to show that it can go toe-to-toe with any browser. Support for HTML 5, which is still not a standard, hardware-accelerated 3D graphics show that Microsoft is thinking ahead on performance. What we don’t know about yet are user interface and security. Even if Microsoft overhauled
