I'm curious if there are any specific things that I should be aware of as a developer with IE9, there's no question that Microsoft um... "forgot" to add compatibility for things like web-sockets etc. But in terms of CSS, font rendering, and JavaScript what precautions do I need to take?
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Unless you are specifically developing for IE9 (like in the case of a corporate client that typically are early adopters), I wouldn't consider IE9 at all unless you want to alienate the 50% of internet users who will likely still utilize IE8 or earlier as of early 2012.
Jess
2010-09-25 16:53:55
Not to mention the many new bugs in IE9, that IE9 won't be working on XP, and the complete lack of implementation of actually USEFUL new HTML5 things, such as websockets. Who cares about HTML5 video, flash works just fine, and the iPhone licensing is apple's problem.
Quandary
2010-10-04 16:17:52
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This page contains a lot of stuff you may expect in IE9:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705.aspx
Lekensteyn
2010-09-25 16:55:06
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I don't think you should do anything special for anything, except enjoy the breath of fresh air you'll get because your sites will suddenly start to behave (closer to) normally when visited by IE users.
The only thing you'll need to do: write less workarounds than before.
I'd say just kick back and relax.
For specific things, refer to Lekensteyn's answer's link.
haylem
2010-09-25 17:11:35