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It looks like a great release, I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I think putting Dean Hamatchovich on IE was a great move, I am a big fan of his work. Thre
by bl4k 16y ago
It looks like a great release, I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I think putting Dean Hamatchovich on IE was a great move, I am a big fan of his work.
Three things:
a) Can you do a separate self-contained package of IE9 on MSDN? ie. the entire app in a single folder, so that we don't have to update the core OS. This will help those who want to run older IE's concurrently.
b) XP support. I know Microsoft want users to shift to Win7, but there are a lot of XP desktops still out there (I run it in a vmachine). Is there a technical reason why it doesn't run on XP? We have all of .NET on XP - so is this a political decision rather than a technical one?
c) Chrome style extensions with HTML + JS etc. These are so easy to develop, and compatibility with the Chrome manifest files for extensions would be a big win for developers, users and the ecosystem.
- zaatar 16y agoThanks for the comments; I've passed on the feedback to the right people. XP itself is being sunsetted "real soon now", so it doesn't make sense to focus our energies trying to make IE9 on XP be awesome, especially when crippled back lack of D2D. It would make for a servicing nightmare. Of course, this is all my own opinion.
- robin_reala 16y agoIt uses Direct2D heavily for its graphics compositing operations - an API that was introduced in Win7 and backported to Vista but didn’t make it as far down as XP.