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200918 Nov
Microsoft today offered developers an early glimpse of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at their 2009 Professional Developers Conference.
Although only at an early stage of development, the IE9 team already looks to have made some impressive leaps forward in terms of web standards support, particularly with regard to CSS3 selectors which, by the looks of the image below (taken from the IE blog), IE9 appears to score an impressive 574 out of 578 in our CSS3 selectors test, a vast improvement over IE8 which scored only 330/578.
CSS3 Selectors Test Results (courtesy of blogs.mdsn.com)
IE9 also looks set to boast support for CSS3 border-radius, an improved scoring in the Acid 3 test (if only slightly) and support for HTML5. You can read the full announcement on the IE blog here and we’ll bring you further announcements on the subject as more information becomes available.
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CSS should be one of the priorities of a browser and small updates can be easily brought in if needed. IE is a wind up
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Björn says:Comment » July 23rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
I work for a large IT-company.
When Microsoft started sending out plees to IE6 users to upgrade browsers and IE8 meanwhile came out, I refused to support IE6 any longer. My employer was not very happy about it at first, but in the end I was able to force a corporate decision not to support IE6 any longer.
I will probably do the same with IE7 as soon as IE9 comes out.
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Do we really believe IE9 will be the saviour??? Sure it will fix a few issues and finally catch up only to remove features that worked perfectly well before.
Im surprised they haven’t opted to use the ‘Word’ engine like they have for Outlook…
Get a Mac, Get Safari, Get a decent web browsing life :)
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Sven Vanbrabant – Internet Explorer 9 and rounded corners says:Comment » September 16th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
[…] times are going to change. Microsoft is about to release Internet Explorer 9. According to CSS3.info this version of Internet Explorer is about to support rounded […]
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Just tried IE9 Beta and it refuses to understand this:
input:checked + label img {margin-top:-26px;}
This piece of CSS3 works in any other major browser for about 2 years.
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great, at last CSS3 support, rounded corners – but what about an XP version?
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hold on folks…I’m not sure how much truth there is in this link, but I would trust your instinct and yes, be skeptical, it’s IE, it’s Microsoft:
http://css3wizardry.com/2010/08/14/ie9-is-the-ie6-of-css3/What lays around the corner and waits????
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When I code, I code for the standard. Right now, that is CSS3, HTML4/XHTML, JavaScript (by Sun) and PHP5.x. Hopefully very soon it will be HTML5 CSS3 & PHP5.3+ and I can say goodbye to XHTML and JavaScript.
When a developer came to our company (a few years back) and said that his app will require IE7/8, I told him that if he is worth his pay, he would make it work on Fx2/3. He did. When my banks webapps did not work on Fx (years ago), I complained and within one month, three of the banks were fixed. Within 70 days, all of them worked.
Years ago I would occasionally come across a site that requires IE but that has not happened in years. What I find more than ever are pages that do not render in IE.
Yes, I have been to businesses that still requires/uses IE6 in-house and they have issues on the Internet. That is there choice. In the past I used to see sites that say, “This site works best with IE.” Now I see web sites that say, “This site is best viewed with a modern browser such as[insert non-IE browser(s) name(s) here].”
As a programmer, I do not see the need to require non-standard code to achieve any task.
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Best practice for round corners in Internet Explorer? - Page 2 - Free Script Installation Service says:Comment » February 11th, 2011 at 9:38 am
[…] Best practice for round corners in Internet Explorer? http://www.css3.info/microsoft-annou…xplorer-9-ie9/ I'll make sure to try it once I get a […]
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polpaulin says:Comment » February 12th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
I just tried it , it sucks as ever …
the CSS3 is not really supported , microsoft vaporware once more -
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Yeah, its absolutely terrible as always, I haven’t used IE in years as soon as I found out about Firefox I never turned back, thank god I didn’t
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Daigtas says:Comment » March 6th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
How long they are working on IE? :D When the mozilla came to life? When the Gecko engine got everyone else to crap themselves? DELETE IE from history. its worthless, integrate Firefox in next version of Windows and forbit viewing websites with IE crap. Mutch less work for developers to code cross-browser things. IE allways sucked, i dont know why they even bothering in hotfixing it, making “look” better if the engine under the hud is whole crap mashine? :D lol they support CSS3! Hoooray!!! still i will not use it as main browser, further more, i’m uninstalling it right after installing windows. Why bother updating it? it still will suck at the most parts of the web.
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Yeah but which selectors. It’d be nice to see which selectors have support or a group of selectors.
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IE9 Masih Belum sepenuhnya mendukung CSS3/HTML5 | Rudy Azhar says:Comment » April 7th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
[…] Microsoft Announces CSS3 Support for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). […]
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Melissa says:Comment » April 10th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
IE9 still doesn’t support rounded corners, and failed the CSS3 selector test (From the 41 selectors 11 have passed, 4 are buggy and 26 are unsupported (Passed 327 out of 574 tests).
I hate using IE, but clients still request support for it. Anyone know where I can find an updated article on how MS intends to address this issue, or in fact if they intend to address it at all?
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Mohiden Abbas says:Comment » April 28th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
This time we can use our CSS3 skills in IE also, But i request Microsoft to stop previous versions of IE’s and officially ask us to upgrade to IE9. This helps CSS developer to get browser compatible in all browsers.
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In the process of making apps and sites IE6 compatible, Microsoft has been wasting millions of man hours worldwide. Entire developer nation should sue MS for this atrocity.
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Well… Avoid using border-radius:whatever; on input fields for IE9. They seem to be fine everywhere else.
Still problematic browser.
… no transitions either
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IE9 = No rounded corners
IE9 = No gradient shading support
IE9 = No text-shadows.
IE9 = Still sub-par security.
IE9 = Usual steaming pile of shit.Microsoft, PLEASE GIVE UP, it’s obvious you cannot make a browser that co-exists with the web-development community. On top of that, if you had any sense of responsibility you would have warned all those public sector organisations that continue to use older versions of IE that they are brutally exposed to XSS attack vectors.
IE is an abortion. Always was, always will be.
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IE is a nightmare, I wish everyone in the world would just stop using it then it would save everyone hours of CSS adjustments. Still they don’t support box shadows or round corners
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It’s been almos 2 years since “Microsoft announces css3 support for IE9” and still some features are not working.
What have they been doing all this time?
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IE sucks balls… yet another useless microsoft product….
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We the Media · Border-Radius, it’s nice! · Web Application Design and Development · Portland, OR says:Comment » November 1st, 2011 at 11:19 pm
[…] to CSS3.info, Microsoft does say that they will be supporting CSS3 in their upcoming Internet Explorer 9 […]
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Bryan says:Comment » December 7th, 2011 at 2:27 am
“…Still they don’t support box shadows or round corners…”
Dude, what are you talking about? Did someone leave an auto-commenting engine on in a loop? IE9 definitely supports both box shadows and round corners! As a user, IE9 is pretty close to the other browsers in terms of rendering and even javascript speed.
Now as a developer, I don’t like that IE9 doesn’t support round corners with a background gradient at the same time, and in fact makes it look worse than IE8 and IE7 – hopefully that will be fixed in IE10. And it’s about time for text-shadow support.
But basically the days of “hours of CSS adjustments” are over if you don’t have to support IE < 9. And the world is much better with the CSS3 support that IE9 has than if it was still like it was in IE8 or IE7.
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Erwinus says:Comment » February 19th, 2012 at 3:40 am
Attitude change of developers is needed.. Show the differences instead of fixing Microsoft browser problems, it is a problem of MS not yours! MS is not god. I also drop the hacks for IE8 and lower, putting a little message on top of the document that says that te browser doesn’t support modern standards, with a link to information that shows and explain the differences (with examples). No nice shades and other ‘fancy’ things in IE8 or lower, but still working. Stop the hack bullshit, people must see that there is ‘another world’. Upgrade to IE9 (when possible) or better use another browser, it is FREE for god sake! We must go on, skip the MS bullshit, show the differences to users. Better for us, better for the customer, better for the internet, better for all. Concentrate on new things instead.
Don’t be afraid to loose customers, that is microsoft commercial talk/bullshit. We as developers can change the IE direction by stop supporting it. Users may ask why it is not working, that’s a good thing. Don’t be a slave of the commercial free stuff!
And very important for you as developer, do not frustrate yourself and skip this piece of crap. Don’t wait for the next better supertrouper awesome release of MS. Also IE10 will not bring satisfaction, forget it and let your visitors know that IE does not support YOUR website (instead of that you not supporting IE).
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Dodie says:Comment » May 24th, 2012 at 4:38 am
I just want to comment how Internet Explorer is going down hill. Have the time when you want to go back to a previous window…it disappears. It deletes the last one or two sites that you were at. It’s not working with eBay pay system and you cannot print out and address where you are going to send the item. Even when I want to upload a picture to eBay, Internet Explorer will not work with java to upload it. I have to go to Google chrome to do all the things that Internet Explorer cannot do anymore.
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Just published a website heavy with CSS3. In my browser tests, ie9 sucked the big weenie. MS used to be a leader and now they just simply suck when it comes to internet. Of all the browsers, chrome seems to handle the website quite impressively. With animation running so clean and smooth.
Everyone should quit using IE.
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it was only needing to put a fix and maybe you’ll like to see it working here:
http://ur-l.fr/onebox/
gradients, gradients hover, border radius, box shadow working from IE6 to IE9.
no problem
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dafunky says to check out his link but he only shows box-gradients, what if we want the whole BODY to have gradient? IE doesn’t do that, not even version 9… I finally got it to do it, but now my DIV box won’t center in ANY browser… IE is a complete piece of crap… I shouldn’t have to put in all these mumbo-jumbo hack codes…wanna know what finally made it “seem” to work? putting in MIN-WIDTH in body… Microsoft said their strategy with IE is Embrace/Extend/Extinguish — we should force the users to Extinguish IE… then MS.
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By design IE8 does not support CSS3; supposedly IE9 does. By observation, I see that IE8 does not support CSS1&2 very well; does IE9 support them properly? IE8 (at least) completely fails to use padding and margins on tags. I refuse to put IE9 back on my system to check on this point, because it makes the Shared Fax new message form fail. Also, it crashes quite often.
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IE9 still has many bugs in it as well as the newer IE10. I personally think @Microsoft should stick with what they are better at and that is OS not browsers.
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IE – late with Canvas, late with CSS3, always incompatible even with its own versions. And IE 8 has a bigger market share than IE9, so most of the good stuff is Still largely unsupported.
No wonder people hate IE. Msoft should just give up and lease a real browser from someone else instead of inflicting IE on an unsuspecting public by dumping it with its OS.
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