Microsoft has release a platform preview of Internet Explorer for Windows 7. This platform preview is intended for Developers. It contains a series of tests that IE 9 is undergoing and is used to compare to other browsers. It also contains several demonstrations showing how IE 9 will perform.
Start with downloading the platform.
OpenFile -IE Preview
Follow the sequence below.
License - Agreement
The Platform Preview installing.
Installation Platform Preview
[4] When the installation is complete the platform appearance is this:
IE9 - Preview
Here are some of the demos that will show what one can expect with IE7.
Speed Demos – Pulsating Bubbles
Pulsating Bubbles
HTML5 demo…The T shirt designer using HTML5. Online changes to the browser can be made on the fly.
HTML5 Demos
Shirts designer… Changes to the T shirt can be made…colors and designs can be produced quickly.
HTML5 Demos
The FallingBalls is another demo using HTML5.
Graphics Demos - Falling Balls
Before and After
Graphics Demos - Falling Balls
Once these demos are run, the platform also shows the results of several browser tests that are run and compared to other browsers.
The Sunspider test is a Java Script test to see how Java performs in the browser. This benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, not the DOM or other browser APIs. It is designed to compare different versions of the same browser, and different browsers to each other.
SunSpider - Benchmark
The Web Standards Project Acid3 Test. This test checks how well a web browser follows certain selected elements from web standards, especially relating to the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.
Acid3 Test
CSS3 Selectors test.
Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in an XML document. Selectors have been optimized for use with HTML and XML, and are designed to be usable in performance-critical code.
CSS3 Selectors Test
IE9 Comparisons in CSS3
IE9 and comparisons
Selectors
CSS3 - Selectors
This preview platform shows that there are significant changes to IE9. As has been rumored Microsoft is expected to make vast changes to the browser in order to keep up with the browser competition. The browser wars are forcing Microsoft to redesign the IE experience. These show details are the start of what Microsoft plans to do to up the ante.
You can download the Preview platform here.
