IE9 is coming
After IE8, Microsoft is working hard to improve their Browser’s Javascript performance. The new browser had been in development only for the last three weeks, since microsoft released Windows 7.
Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.
Microsoft dug a huge hole when it mostly abandoned IE6 and the Web from 2001 until 2006. Their early efforts at ramping back up with IE7 were a big disappointment to most Web developers and while their efforts with IE8 were much better, they’re still at least a full generation behind the modern browsers.
Microsoft’s IE8, and to an even greater extent, IE7 and the older-but-still-widely-used IE6, have been left in the dust on JavaScript performance by rivals, particularly Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari. The latter two are built atop the open-source WebKit rendering engine.
IE9 had improved its Acid3 score. They have made some improvements in IE9, which now scores 32 out of 100. IE8, they scored 24 out of 100. Current builds of Chrome, Safari and Opera all score 100, while Firefox 3.6, which is still in beta, makes it to 92 out of 100.
Release schedule for IE9, or public preview are not yet available.
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