Internet Explorer 9 will support the Canvas graphics technology and the video and audio tags specified as part of the still-developing HTML5 standard, said Ryan Gavin, senior director for Internet Explorer, at a media event in San Francisco. The company demonstrated the performance of the third platform preview as compared to other browsers, taking specific jabs at Firefox and Chrome as it made its demonstration.
As part of its bid to overhaul Internet Explorer–which is still the world’s leading Web browser but has been losing share and cachet–Microsoft has chosen a new strategy for rolling out code to developers and browser enthusiasts. It released the first “platform preview” of IE9 at the Mix conference in March, and has now released new versions every eight weeks, Gavin said.
Particularly amusing is Microsoft speed-testing IE9 with a game that’s apparently parodying the Google Chrome speed tests mentioned on this blog some time ago.
