ZDNet’s All About Microsoft writer Mary-Jo Foley, somehow by his means has managed to grab a screenshot of the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 which was posted up on a Russian site. Microsoft has somehow managed to remove it and the screenshot/info has been pulled out from that Russian site, but thanks to Mary Jo for getting up all the details for us.
The Microsoft Russia site said there will be a new, simplified navigation bar with IE 9 that will leave “more room for the (Web) site itself.” There will be some navigation tools for commonly used functions — things like a back button and a combined address/search bar. But the numerous menu items in older versions of IE have “been consolidated into one,” the site said. “Now the user sees only what you need to navigate.”
The Russian Microsoft site said that there will be provisions for “recognized,” or “protected,” sites which will allow users to go straight from the Windows taskbar to these sites without having to open IE first. In other words, recognized, protected sites will be treated more like traditional Windows applications.
Bing translated the instructions for doing this as “(C)lick the pins in the address bar or click the site in a new tab and drag it to the taskbar. That’s all. If the site is pinned, it displays an icon that is separate from the Internet Explorer. Now from the website you are just one click.”
(It sounds like this might be a feature accessible by Windows 7 users only, though I am not sure.)
The Russian site also mentioned “tear-off tabs” — a capability that will build on Windows’s Aero Snap feature. Snap allows users to more easily look at two pages, side-by-side by “snapping” them to the sides of their PC screen. Firefox and Safari both already include tear-off tabs, allowing users to select tabbed items and turn them into separate windows.
Here’s the description of the tear-off tabs from the Russian site, as translated by Bing:
“Often a task must open several Web pages or screens. Advanced tabs in combination with Windows Aero Snap is a quick way to display two or two-page spread. To do this, simply drag the page in different screen and will appear next to each other. Reproduction of content sites and video are not violated.”
Internet Explorer 9 was sure to come after IE8 as to compete with other browsers in the way. The new Internet Explorer 9 looks very promising with a much faster JavaScript engine, graphics rendering taking place on the GPU level for HTML5 via the Microsoft DirectX technology. Moreover, the IE9 will take browsing experience to a whole new level with lot of new features.
So far four Platform Preview builds of IE 9 has been delivered for developers. Beta version of IE9 will be released on September 15th.
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Hope IE9 resolves all browser compatibility issues
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