Hi Peter,
I think it is safe to assume that IE9Preview was released to the Wild as
part of the SDLC - Requirements gathering and prototyping.
This is an interesting site from the html5gallery.com
http://www.html5laboratory.com/
There you will find information about new HTML5 tags and writing HTML5 web
pages -
http://www.html5laboratory.com/writing-a-valid-html5-document.php
I think that the IETeam would be interested to find out what is in popular
use already and what may be the 'next big thing'. IE9 has a new rendering
and javascript engine so backward compatibility is also of interest. I
think we can make a constructive contribution by reviewing our own test
cases at connect with IE9Preview for backward compatibility issues and
trolling the wild to find out what the non-MS world is using, what is hot
and what is not. There will still be millions of legacy quirks pages on the
web for years to come.
Most of the web has been written with non-MS development tools and things
like DOM manipulation are actually a popular technique used widely that IE
does not handle as well as it could. SVG has been put back on the table as
it IS a popular online games developer platform. As far as the average web
surfer, blogger or faceplanter is concerned there is little value in
installing IE9 preview at this stage.
This is the very first release and updates are planned on a 6 weekly basis,
so at this stage it is still early days.... at least the IE feedback portal
at connect has been re-opened and re-designed to accommodate both public and
developer feedback. It is very important for any company to engage with
their customers and the users of their products. The Peeved is growing in
membership.
Should you rush out and make your sites <!doctype html> compliant? No... I
am considering things like document storage and some DOM techniques that are
already available in IE8 and the latest versions of the other browsers. My
web logs though, still show the greatest visitation is from IE6 users. This
should change dramatically in the coming months though.
The benefit for us is that we are engaged in a learning process.
Regards.
Post by Peter Flindtrob^_^ wrote on 28.03.2010 in message
Post by rob^_^http://html5gallery.com/
The sites works.
If this is what whe can await from HTML 5, I don't understand all this
drama... ;)