Hardware-Accelerated HTML5 Coming in IE9

I wouldn't really call Vista SP1 users out of luck, just download the service pack that you *should* have had anyway!

That sounds great. I just hope MS is not going to modified the HTML5 to their own version like they did with Sun's Java.

By the way... HTML5 vs Flash... which one you like it better?

will it require an adequate graphics card?

It will be interesting to see if IE9 will be 100% W3C complaint, as well as being able to render all of the various items above at 100% compliance. I do like the idea of hardware accelerated HTML5 and Javascript and how much faster it is vs other Javascript engines like Webkit.

Looking forward to it. Use Opera for most of my browsing needs but due to the MS dominance there are some sites mostly interactive that other browsers tend to have an issue with.

Without FireFox and other browsers, I think we could be still in IE6 age. I do hope 3rd party browsers can prevent the domination of IE all the time. So that we can see new technology progresses like this often.

Joy another Internet explorer:

Hello new vulnerabilities in active-x, hello Hardware-Accelerated HTML5 hacker lol

FINALLY.

I expect the uptake of this to be a little faster than IE7/8 too, since people must be getting more used to upgrades now.

But still; FINALLY.

Yes, let's push Javascript more because it's such a secure browsing add-in.

This is going to be a big failure; IT staff around the world will be scrambling to install patches blocking the new javascript engine.

I wonder if they finally put in a master password to protect your passwords yet.

Well at least it looks like their trying, and if IE is competetive when it's released i'll be happy to try it.

Any word on MS changing its schedule for new browsers from every 2-3 years to maybe at least a yearly release? Now with stiff competition I would figure they would try and push IE9 out by the end of this year.

I take it no gazelle ... right... hope windows 8 comes with a ballot so I can choose firefox 5

while HTML 5 will grow in popularity, it will never replace flash.

There flash games but not really HTML 5 games, also while it will be easier to add hardware acceleration to HTML 5, it wont perform as well as flash in terms of quality.

flash has the ability to do an extensive amount of post processing on videos, which is why many flash videos look better than HTML 5 videos.

adobe needs to work on improving hardware acceleration in flash, and even add CUDA and BROOK support so the post processing and all of the other stuff done by flash can also be accelerated.
As stated by adobe, and nvidia and ATI, only certain model cards can support flash acceleration, and all of the cards that support it also support either CUDA or BROOK. current flash with hardware acceleration still has a pretty high CPU usage and thats because the entire process of playing a flash video is not accelerated, just the video file and even then the video data has to be in h.264 this limits what the acceleration in flash by a lot.

they need to have flash use CUDA and BROOK, it should e easy for them as they have a decent team coding flash, and also many open source groups were able to make rainbow table generators that supported CUDA and BROOK, and many video converters are starting to support CUDA, which shows that the GPU processing can be used on a wide range of things.

I want to see HTML5 video suport GPU acceleration.

@rhino13: browsers that implement 'video' tags already support GPU acceleration - it is not as complex to support than it is for Flash.

@razor512: there are no HTML5 widely known games yet, as the 'majority' browser didn't support HTML5 - but there already are HTML 5 games, and they'll only become more common.

Postprocessing on videos is possible in HTML 5, it's just not really done yet. Postprocessing of Flash video is difficult, as videos are in YUV format, but Flash can only process RGB video - so the applet needs to send the frame to be uncompressed to the card, have it processed, converted to RGB and then get it back and work from that. That's the reason, BTW, why Flash on Linux is unaccelerated: no free API provides that yet.

@Izzycraft: that's supposed to be your login password, right?

@Clintonio: XP users won't get it. So uptake will be slow.

What I don't like about this IE 9, is that there is STILL no support for DOM 2 events - a spec dating back to november 2000, implemented by all other browsers...

Yeah you can set a masterpassword in opera and FF but not in chrome or IE although IE is pretty dam secure on windows 7 a program that you didn't get though ie could easily just mine the reg data for your passwords. So an encryption based masterpassword that is entered during every time you use the password or more preferably when you first use it for the session that is my main complaint of IE as of late

I know IE9 so far is just a pretty much engine not really a browser but i hope they finally get that implemented.

"this preview won't install on an operating system older than Windows Vista SP2"

Thank you Microsoft! I really appreciate that, considering the fact that my fully genuine SP1 machine flat out refuses to install SP2. ...wait, that isn't true. It DOES install it, wasting my time and taking control of my computer for several minutes to a half hour, and then once it is done installing, it reboots and says "installation failed; reverting changes." Great!

Personally, I'm psyched! I have removed Firefox due to poor and slow page rendering and security bugs. Sure, IE has holes...but it renders correctly 99.5% of the time. I do use a second browser simultaneously though...Chrome! Did anyone else read the toms' test on browser performance? Firefox was a LONG way behind the Webkit crew & Opera. Until Gecko2 comes out, I'm no longer installing FF on my PCs.

What I want from IE9 is a fix for the dead tabs problem.

use a clean sp2 vista dvd

here we go again.

I have just upgraded to Windows 7 64bit and have noticed that we get 2 versions of IE8, 1 32bit version and a 64bit version. As there is a lot of chat here about browsers maybe it is a good place to ask this question.

Can anyone explain what the differencec between these two versions are and if any differences have an effect on general use? Do 64bit browsers use the same flash and or HTML5 code?

@Schizofrog: there is no absolute difference between 32- and 64-bit browsers (apart from the inherent advantages 64-bit has over 32): HTML and Javascript are interpreted the same way.

However, several binary plugins need to be compiled the same way the browser is: for now, there is no 64-bit IE version of Flash. As far as I know, the only widespread 64-bit version of Flash is on Linux (where 64-bit browsers are common since 2005), although the Windows version may be coming soon. Ever since Java 6, the Java web plugin is also available in 64-bit. There are some corner cases where it doesn't work, but that this the exception.

How about proper native 64bit browsers?
I've been waiting a long time now. Sure, they exist, but they're hell to use...