EWeek: 10 key points for Microsoft's successful IE9 Development

Microsoft disclosed for the first time the IE9 development process and some technologies at the just-concluded PDC professional Developer Conference, including the use of GPU acceleration to provide more powerful page rendering and the adoption of a brand new JavaScript Engine. Although IE9 is still in the early stage of development, many people have great hopes for IT. The well-known IT website eWeek has recently summarized 10 suggestions that Microsoft should pay attention to during IE9 development:

1. Improved browsing speed: basically all the test results show that IE8 is not as fast as Google Chrome and other competitors. Although it has the largest user base, its market share is not as high as before, microsoft should realize that it is time to speed up IE.

2. Improved security: Microsoft has made a lot of efforts in improving IE security over the past period, and the results are also obvious. However, compared with other browsers, there is still much room for improving IE.

3. Learn from Google Chrome: Although IE is a veteran in the browser market, Chrome is just a startup, but from the performance over the past year, Chrome does have extraordinary advantages, although IE9 cannot copy the Chrome route, it can be greatly inspired by Chrome development.

4. Better support for network standards: the biggest headache for developers is the inability to support many new Web standards. IE9 should be more network-friendly if it wants to be more successful, supports more latest standards.

5. Enhancing Social Networking: Integrating social networks with popular browsers on social networks also seems to be a good development direction. At present, there are not many browsers paying close attention to this, if IE9 finds another way in this regard, it may be an unexpected success.

6. Plug-ins: Although IE allows users to install plug-ins, the emphasis on this is not enough. Firefox, the biggest competitor of IE, has achieved the success of today, microsoft should also provide more powerful plug-in compatibility to provide more additional features for IE users.

7. JavaScript: there is no need to say anything about the importance of JavaScript. However, IE is very disappointing about the speed of JavaScript. This is a prominent problem that IE9 has to solve.

8. cross-platform: since IE was released, it is only applicable to Windows. However, as the operating system changes, IE should also be considered to be extended to other platforms and should not be limited to Windows.

9. Open Source: Although IE Open Source is still a very difficult task, it is not completely impossible. If IE9 considers open source, it may be another world.

10. Innovation: when the new version of IE is released, many users will find that Microsoft has added some functions to IE after observing the competitor's technology. However, such an imitation means that they will always be behind others, if we can break through the development of new unique functions in innovative aspects, IE will gain a greater opportunity.

1. Microsoft discloses IE9 technical details and will support HTML5 standards
2. Microsoft PDC2009 will discuss IE9 but will not release code
3. Microsoft IE9 began to develop and solicit user feedback