- IE9 provides faster performance for HTML5 features like video and audio as well as CSS3 capabilities. It supports standards like HTML5, CSS3, SVG and DOM more completely than previous versions of IE.
- Microsoft is actively involved in the relevant standards bodies to help drive the evolution of web standards. Interoperable markup and a standards-aligned approach are priorities for IE9.
- IE9 features hardware-accelerated rendering for graphics-intensive HTML5 capabilities, improving performance significantly over IE8 for sites using these new features.