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State of Internet Explorer 9 progress
I recently found an old article (3 months old) I did not read about IE9 progress.
There are some good news in it, first the javascript engine has been improved a lot. It is now comparable to others modern browsers (just a bit slower). Also, somewhat good news for CSS3 compliance, border-radius will be in IE9 and some other tweaks too. No word on border-shadow yet.
It is worth the read, of course we will know more in 1 week, at MIX2010.
Author: Cedric Dugas
Cedric Dugas is an experienced front-end developer and founder of Position: Absolute, based in Montreal, Canada. When he is not doing CSS and jquery (does it ever happen?), he likes to read on web usability and play trumpet. Why don't you follow him on twitter.
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I think its great that the IE9 team is making such head way but its all moot unless Microsoft finds a way to get current users to upgrade their IE7 or even IE6 versions to something current. 60% of IE users running a 10+ year old browser completely defeats any progress made in an “in development” product.
Agreed; until Microsoft starts taking a more active role in pushing updates to people, I’m not really all that interested in what they’re doing with the *next* version of IE.
IE should adopt Webkit and do us all a favour! That would put all major browsers from the same underlying code base and all of the benefits that would bring..