Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Julian Buss, March 17th, 2010 14:35:04
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It seems that web development finally grows up. All good browsers supported technology like SVG, CSS 3, pre-compiled JavaScript and so on - except Internet Explorer.

For ages, Internet Explorer was far, far behind and caused headache after headache for each web application developer. But it seems that Internet Explorer finally tries to catch up. According to a german article on heise online Internet Explorer 9 will support:
  • SVG 1.1
  • many modern CSS features like rounded edges, multiple background images and CSS 3 selectors
  • pre-compiled JavaScript (that means: fast JavaScript, which is very important for web applications)
  • The HTML 5 video tag (with H264 codec)

So, when IE 9 is available we might have the situation that all important browsers support the same set of important features. F i n a l l y .
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1) Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Tommy Valand 17.3.2010 18:14:05

Too bad most enterprise customers (at least the customers of the company I work for) are still using IE6. :\

2) Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Declan Lynch 17.3.2010 18:32:32

Web developers need to stop supporting IE6 for it to die and disappear from enterprise environments.

3) Finally! Internet Explorer catches up. SVG, CSS 3, fast JavaScript Engine.
Julian Buss 17.3.2010 18:41:02

Tommy, Dec: we are already motivating customers to upgrade their IEs by billing an extra charge for IE 6 compatibility.

Customers need to know that using IE 6 costs money.

See my blog post from may 2009: { Link }

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