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IE9 Platform Preview and Community - today available for download. Will be updating every few weeks.
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Hey @binarytales GPU HTML5, as I understand it, means using the hardware on the DX foundation to accelerate graphics performance in IE9
Now the fab game Asteroids, in SVG, JavaScript and HTML5 running in Firefox and IE9 side by side. I'm gonna need a lot of drinks tonight.
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So what we have here is HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1 in IE9. If I weren't seeing it with my own eyes, I wouldn't freakin' believe it.
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GPU-Powered HTML5: IE9 will run HTML5 better through hardware. Demo by Steven Sinofsky and Dean comparing graphics performance.
"We are working with standards bodies and other browsers to minimize these [differing per browser] results"
IE9: border-radius rgba opacity CSS3 test: IE9 passes 578 test from CSS3.info out of holy crap - 578 tests.
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"We love HTML5 so much we want it to work in IE9. We will do for the rest of the web platform what we did for CSS 2.1 in IE8"
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Goal 1: Making JavaScript Even Faster for HTML5 Applications. Compiled JS in the background using multi-core.
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To the community in re the "death" of IE6 and progress in IE browsers "I thank you for being part of this movement." - Dean Hachamovitch
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Five topics from Dean today: Performance, standards, gpu-powered HTML5, IE9 platform and community, and a "surprise"
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First thing out of Dean's Hachomovitch mouth "We planned IE9 from the ground up to allow professional grade HTML5 on hardware."
Hey @warrenbuckley, It's called "MIX" for a reason - this year around 40-45% of the speakers are NOT from Microsoft. Very interesting no?
Will be live tweeting #mix10 keynotes this a.m. This place is packed to the rafters. Sold out show, as big if not bigger than it ever was.