IE 9: First look at the new JS Engine | Charles

ccatto
Catto

Hey Now Charles,

This was a very good vid! Really enjoyed it.

Aside from JS improvements in IE9, your statements on the user experience is important which I'm sure we all agree & sure hope that there is the feature 'Speed Dial' which could be the best feature since tabbed browsing.

Thx 4 the info,

Catto

Dodo
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@Charles: Complex computation in JS isn't any fun. I did PNG compression once... it was slow. You had to wait like 10-15 minutes for a file to save. It didn't run in a browser though.

someone

I request someone from the IE team to please give a straight answer right away. Will IE 9 run on Windows XP SP3 and Windows XP 64-bit SP2? If yes, will the XP version continue to use GDI? How will DirectWrite and Direct2D for XP be handled bcoz there's no WDDM! You can't kill support for an OS that 70% of the installed base use.

exoteric
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#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 11:21 AM

For the love of God, it's 8 years old. Time to move to 7.

Mephiles

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#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 11:21 AM

I think it's very unlikely that it will be supported in XP. It's an OS that's over 8 years old now. You shouldn't be using it any more. Wink

contextfree

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#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 11:21 AM

Remember IE9 is still probably 18+ months away. The market share figures should be different by then (or at least Microsoft hopes they will be). Besides, people who are OK with sticking with XP are probably OK with sticking with IE8 (or other browsers).

magicalclick

All I want to know is, well we have a proper tab switching experience? Meaning, can I switch tabs while the stuff inside a tab is not responding?

Can we actually have a default download directory setup as a string, like Home Page URL? What I mean is, we always have the same home page until we specifically change it, can we just have the same dumb easy thing on download directory? I think it is annoying when the directory keeps changing based on the last download, it is more complex in code and harder for users to use.

Spell Check please, oh man.

And I really think they need to change the GUI design to release more vertical spaces.

exoteric
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#Nov 18th, 2009 @ 12:54 PM

That's not really for a thread about the Javascript engine. But while we're off-topic, I'd like to commend on the new inteerview style where there's a separate cameraman, it looks very dynamic and engaging Smiley