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IE9 Preview Touts Cross Browser Compatibility

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-a-brilliant-feature dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 development team has announced the availability of the third IE9 platform preview release on the IE blog. Dean Hachamovitch writes, 'The third Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now, continues the deep work around hardware acceleration to enable the same standards-based markup to run faster. This is the latest installment of the rhythm we started in March, delivering platform preview releases approximately every eight weeks and listening to developers. You'll see more performance, same markup, and hardware-accelerated HTML5.' The announcement focuses on cross-browser compatibility, noting that when 'developers spend less time rewriting their sites to work across browsers they have more time to create amazing experiences on the Web.' Curiously, however, the video embedded in the page works only in some browsers. Dear Microsoft, IE9 supports many royalty-free, web-compatible formats out of the box (HTML, CSS, WOFF, PNG, and the like) so why not at least one more?"

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  1. TRANSLATION OF MS SPEAK: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    CROSS BROWSER: It works on multiple flavors of Internet Explorer
    STANDARDS BASED: MS Standards, 'natch!
    LISTENING TO DEVELOPERS: No, actually they do listen. MS doesn't actually DO anything, but they do listen.
    THE WEB: Any site written to work with Internet Explorer. The rest of the sites are NTW (Not The Web).