Internet Explorer 9 Launches

Mar. 14, 2011

The Web is about to get more immersive with Internet Explorer 9. Along with designers and developers from around the world, Internet Explorer 9 delivers a more beautiful Web for Windows.

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Video: IE9 Launch Event

Release: Microsoft Announces Global Availability of Internet Explorer 9

Images: Internet Explorer 9 in Pictures

Source: Microsoft News Center

Looks like Chrome...which is a good thing I suppose. But if this one comes with a 'compatibility mode' that lets you run it as a broken older version I'm going to vomit.

Is this IE9 a beta or an official release?

Official version I believe - i had the release candidate a few weeks back before I wiped windows and confined it to a virtual machine.

As a web developer I have to say that for the first time ever I am please about an IE release.

It follows HTML standards and even supports the latest version of HTML5 and CSS3. Finally drops shadows and rounded corners come to IE, which have been on firefox/webkit for years!

In 5 years time cross browser testing may be a 5 minute job rather than building for compliant browsers and then testing for IE6,7and 8 separately.

If you have windows 7 and still use IE please upgrade immediately.

Better yet, switch to chrome!

But if this one comes with a 'compatibility mode' that lets you run it as a broken older version I'm going to vomit.

BLEHHH!!!! I just installed it and it *does* come with 'compatibility mode'. Honestly, why build a standards compliant browser and then add a button to @#ck it up? In 2011 this is @#$## unforgivable.

BLEHHH!!!! I just installed it and it *does* come with 'compatibility mode'. Honestly, why build a standards compliant browser and then add a button to @#ck it up? In 2011 this is @#$## unforgivable.

I thought that compatibility mode was ONLY for those web sites NOT built to true HTML/CSS standards, but which rather were written to Microsoft's IE7/IE6/etc "standards"? i.e. For a properly coded HTML site, you don't need to click on compatibility mode, but if somebody coded a site so that it would display as intended on an older IE version then to see it that way in IE9 or IE8, you needed to click on compatibility mode.

For those who've never ventured into building web sites, the IE browsers were notorious for not complying with agreed-upon industry standards. You could build a site that would properly display on Firefox, Opera and Safari, only to open it in IE and find that Microsoft had their OWN ideas on how a certain code should be implemented and displayed.

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