Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft's web browser released in 2011 that introduced several user interface enhancements and improved support for web standards like HTML5 and CSS3. It features pinned sites that allow websites to be launched from the Windows taskbar like applications. IE9 also includes a faster JavaScript engine, enhanced tab functionality, and hardware acceleration for graphics, video, and font rendering. However, it dropped support for Windows XP and removed some legacy features from prior versions.

1. Internet Explorer 9 The Beauty ofthe Web Features for Web Developers & API Programming

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3. How many of you use Internet ? How many of you use Internet Daily ? Which web browser do you use ? How many of you tried Internet Explorer 9?

4. Current version of Internet Explorer Web browser from Microsoft Released to the public on March 14, 2011

5. System requirements for Internet Explorer 9 Operating Systems supported Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista (with Service Pack 2) Windows Server 2008 (with Service Pack 2) Windows XP is not supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available.

6. Windows XP is not supported.

7. Why XP is out of Picture? IE9 uses the Direct2D feature of DirectX which is available only in Windows 7, Vista SP2 & Server 2008 R2, not in XP. Windows XP users have a fast, safe, reliable and private browser in IE8 that IE9 doesn’t provide for XP. IE 9 requires the modern graphics and security underpinnings that have come since 2001, which XP lacks. IE9 is intended to be run on a modern OS in order to build on the latest hardware and OS innovations. IE9 require a discrete graphics card and prefer multiple cores. Such things didn’t exist in XP

8. Release history IE public releases began last year in March 2010 by Platform Preview. Followed by Beta in September 2010 and finally RTW in March 2011.

9. Enhancements in IE9 for Web Developers Internet Explorer 9 supports several CSS 3 properties Embedded ICC v2 or v4 color profiles support via Windows Color System Improved JavaScript performance using an engine called Chakra. It also features hardware-accelerated graphics rendering using Direct2D, hardware-accelerated text rendering using DirectWrite, hardware-accelerated video rendering using Media Foundation, imaging support provided by Windows Imaging Component, and high fidelity printing powered by the XPS print pipeline IE9 also supports the HTML5 video and audio tags and the Web Open Font Format

11. Security-enabled Download Manager: Manages file transfers and can pause and resume downloads and informs if a file may be malicious

12. Enhanced Tabs and Tab Page - the new tab page can show most visited sites, and tabs are shown next to the address bar with the feature of closing an inactive tab.

13. Add-on Performance Advisor: Shows which third party add-ons may be slowing down browser performance and then allows the option to disable or remove them Compact user interface.

15. Security-enabled Download Manager

16. Add on Performance Advisor

17. Omnibox: Searchbar & Addressbar Merged

18. Changes from previous versions I : User Interface Changes: Pinned Sites : Jumplists

19. Changes from previous versions I : User Interface Changes: Pinned Sites Windows 7 taskbar: Shows both actively running applications & shortcuts to apps that you use frequently. By pinning an app you can quickly find & launch application. Using Internet Explorer 9, you can also pin websites to the taskbar, which enables you to launch sites the same way you launch other applications in Windows. IE9 users can pin any website to the Windows 7 taskbar just as they pin applications. Pinned website can be opened quickly and conveniently. It is more than a shortcut. Provides features that can greatly improve a user's ability to navigate, control, and interact with the sites they visit.

21. Creating a dynamic list of destinations that are personalized and relevant to the user.

22. Drawing the user back to the website by flashing the taskbar button or displaying a icon overlay.

23. Adding remote controls and commands to the taskbar's preview window.

24. Making the browser look and feel like your site by changing the color of the Back and Forward buttons.

27. Desktop tooltips

28. Site start URL

29. Window size

30. Back and Forward button colors

32. Thumbnail toolbar commands

34. Changes from previous versions I : User Interface Changes: Pinned Sites : Adding Jumplist to your website for IE9 Website icon: Your website should have favicon (32×32 icon as favicon.ico) to get better appearance in Windows 7 Taskbar. To add favicon, Just copy your icon file at the root of your website and add the following code in between <head></head> tag. 2. Microsoft has introduced a HTML meta tag application-name. It has two attributes name and content. The name attribute must have the value “application-name” and the content attribute holds the name of the website that appears on the JumpList.

35. Changes from previous versions I : User Interface Changes: Pinned Sites : Adding Jumplist to your website for IE9 3. To add each Task to Jumplist, we need to add the following HTML meta tag, like I have added 4 tasks viz: Subscribe to RSS, Sign Up for Newsletter, Follow @windowsvjand Became a fan on Facebook. It also has two attributes name and content. The name attribute must have the value “msapplication-task” and the content attribute takes three string values as shown above format.

37. window.external.msSiteModeAddJumpListItem(‘{Item-Name}’,‘{Action-URL}’,'{Icon-URL}’)

38. window.external.msSiteModeShowJumplist();And finally call the our function MyJumplist() to execute the whole javascript code. Add the code to between <head></head> tag and Pin your website .

39. Changes from previous versions I : User Interface Changes: Pinned Sites : Adding Jumplist to your website for IE9

41. Document Object Model (DOM) : Improvements like DOM Traversal and Range Full DOM L2 and L3 events.

43. Audio tag include native support for MP3 and AAC codecs

44. Video tag natively support H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

45. Support for other video formats, such as WebM, will require third-party plugins.

46. Internet Explorer 9 includes support for the HTML5 canvas tag which allows dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images..

48. Malware protection : IE9 uses layered protection against malware. It uses technical measures to protect its memory like the DEP/NSX protection, Safe Exception handlers (SafeSEH) and ASLR protection used in IE 8.

51. Progress bar and other status bar elements except for the Zoom button

52. Tab list menu button (Ctrl+Shift+Q)

53. Page title from title bar

54. Large icons on command bar

55. Completed MB when downloading (Only percentage is shown)

56. Option to entirely disable ClearType for IE only

58. Comparison with other browsers

59. Comparison with other browsers

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61. More Information About Pinning a sitehttp://bit.ly/ie9pin About IE9 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home Testdrives & Demos ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ Download http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie http://www.Beautyofweb.com

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