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7 Reasons I’m Excited About IE9

September 15, 2010, 5:51 pm

The IE9 beta was released today, and I’m really excited.  Sure, it supports HTML5 and modern web standards, leverages hardware acceleration to make it faster than any other browser on the world, and more.  But that’s not what really gets me excited about it.


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For those of you unable to watch the above video, let me spell it out:

  1. It’s fast. VERY fast.
  2. Warns me about add-ons that are slow.
  3. I can easily leverage search and search suggestions
  4. Downloads are better integrated into the browser.
  5. New tabs show useful activity information.
  6. You can easily pull tabs out of the browser, and back in!
  7. You can pin a tab into the task bar and leverage quick launches.

Enjoy!

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Jon Box on the Capabilities of Internet Explorer 8

May 5, 2010, 4:43 pm

At MIX10, Jon Box – a Senior Architect Evangelist with Microsoft – spoke with SocialWendy about Internet Explorer 8.  In addition to highlighting the fact that IE8 makes the Internet easier, safer, and faster, Jon talks about three unique capabilities found in IE8:

Furthermore, Jon highlighted how a web slice allows a user to subscribe to a piece of content on a web page, and also explain how a user can leverage an accelerator – such as Walmart’s accelerator – to make it easier to search for information and goods on the Internet.

If you’d like more information on how to do this yourself for your own web pages, take a look at the following resources:

Also, if you want to take a look at some great web slices, try out the following:

Happy web slicing!

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