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.

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Re:Uphill Battle

[pandrijeczko]

I am actually quite impressed with the amount of good feedback I've had from friends and relatives when I've done a PC repair/clean/rebuild for them.

I've taken the attitude with them that if I fix stuff for them free-of-charge then I don't want to have them come back again in a hurry.

This means they get the following:

- Firefox installed with a few good addons like Adblock, Xmarks (if they've more than 1 PC so they can sync bookmarks) and Flashgot

- If they have Norton or McAfee installed, I ask their permission to remove it and tell them not to renew their licenses; in place go AVG Anti-Virus and Spybot S&D for adware defence

- With their permission, replace hooky copies of MS Office & Photoshop with OpenOffice and GIMP

- Show them how to use CCleaner and set MyDefrag to be running once or twice a week

I've been amazed at the number of people who have come back and told me how trouble-free their PCs have been as a result.

Re:firefox is getting old

[Jeff-reyy]

cool story bro!