Sixth IE9 Platform Preview - Now with CSS3 2D Transforms!
New Features Highlights
With the sixth Platform Preview, developers and designers are in a great position to prepare their sites for the IE9 Release Candidate that will follow Platform Preview 6 and precede the final IE9 product. Internet Explorer 9 Beta is intended to help developers better understand how Internet Explorer 9 has progressed in the following dimensions of the platform: all-around browser performance, web standards support to help enable the same markup to work identically across different browsers and new graphics capabilities that harness the power of Windows PCs.
New Features Highlights:
- CSS3 2D Transforms - Internet Explorer Platform Preview Build 6 adds support for CSS3 2D Transforms. (Internet Explorer 9 Beta does not yet support CSS3 2D Transforms, but support is planned for a future release.) CSS 2D Transforms enables elements that are rendered by CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space.
- Enhanced CSS3 support - Internet Explorer 9 Beta has more support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) than any prior Microsoft browser. Continuing on the work that was done in Internet Explorer 8—where Internet Explorer became fully compliant with the CSS2.1 specification—Internet Explorer 9 Beta adds support for many components of CSS3.
- Added HTML5 support - Internet Explorer 9 Beta builds on the work done on HTML5 compliance in Internet Explorer 8, and implements the following new features: new video, audio and canvas HTML elements, selection interface, more interoperable HTML parsing, several new DOM APIs, and SVG.
- DOM Improvements - In addition to additional World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) DOM Level 2 (L2) and L3 support, Internet Explorer 9 Beta features an enhanced DOM, as well as improved whitespace handling.
- Additional platform versioning capabilities - Pinned sites, new document mode and new user-agent (UA) string.
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