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Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS
suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNET on Microsoft's preview of IE9 in Las Vegas just now. "At its Mix 10 conference Tuesday, Microsoft gave programmers, Web developers, and the world at large a taste of things to come with its Web browser. Specifically, Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, a prototype designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now. Coming in the new version is support for new Web standards including plug-in-free video; better performance with graphics, text, and JavaSript by taking advantage of modern computing hardware. One big change in the JavaScript engine Hachamovitch is proud of is its multicore support. As soon as a Web page is loaded, Chakra assigns a processing core to the task of compiling JavaScript in the background into fast code written in the native language of the computer's processor." Microsoft didn't say what codec they were using for the HTML5 video demo, but the Technologizer says it's H.264.
Yeah, except Dirac is worse at streaming stuff, which is what is needed on the web. Dirac might have better quality for offline viewing, but it sucks compared to the others at streaming.
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All of that behavior is configurable and can be changed to support what you think is the one true way.
Uh, how's your "reading"? I said default behavior. I love open source as much as the next guy but this "if you don't like it, figure out the configuration option or hack it yourself" attitude reeks of elitism.
Now go cry in a corner and leave us alone.
Says the computer janitor posting anonymously.