The hatred many web developers have of past incarnations of Internet Explorer is well known and extremely well documented. A virtual hate campaign by some of the most disgruntled nerds have even tried (unsuccessfully) to get IE6 killed off, but with the imminent release of IE9 (which is currently in Public Beta) could that all be about to change?
Standards Compliant
The general consensus is that the Internet Explorer development team are either building the application while referring to a book on the Internet or are intentionally burying their head in the sand when it comes to building the browser. However, IE9 claims to be the most standards compliant Internet Explorer browser ever - and it's not just Microsoft's PR department making this claim, the Beta version of the browser scores 95/100 on the Acid3 test (a well known test to see how well browsers stick to standards). By comparison Firefox 3.6 scores 94.
All this means that finally web developers and web designers can build websites and not have to worry about how to make it work on Internet Explorer (although that said, while people are still using IE6 this is an ongoing problem.
It Loves Javascript
All the big Web 2.0 sites nowadays use Javascript to make their sites more interactive. GMail is a rather hollow experience if you don't enable Javascript and you wouldn't be able to use Facebook Chat without it. The competition amongst browsers has moved on from features and looks and is now more about how to process and render Javascript as fast as possible. IE9 does this by taking advantage of the multi-core processors most computers have nowadays thanks to Intel's Core 2 Duo and other new processors. By assigning a separate process to an unused core IE9 has been proven to match Chrome in terms of Javascript processing and shown to be even faster than the Preview version of Firefox 4.
It Loves Graphics Too
As well as offloading the javascript processing to an unused processor core it also offloads the graphics support to the graphics card if one is available. This gives smoother animations and HD video playback compared to most other browsers. It also gives exceptional support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
HTML5 and CSS3 Support
Even though the standards for these new technologies haven't been agreed upon, tech geeks and cutting edge websites are beginning to use various elements in their designs. For example CSS3 allows the developer to have gradiented buttons and HTML5 supports direct embedding of videos and audio.
In Conclusion
Microsoft let their Internet Explorer browser become a laughing stock amongst web users and vilified amongst web developers but IE9 looks like they have finally sat up and taken notice and with the kind of resources Microsoft can focus on a project it might not take much for IE9 to become the new browser of choice. However, unless the large corporations and Govt. departments decide to finally upgrade their systems from using IE6, web developers around the world are still going to be tearing their hair out over various quirks for many years to come.
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