Microsoft is still hard at work on Internet Explorer 9, and today provided an updated on how they are going with the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) web standards.
Latest results show that IE9 is now fully HTML5 standards compliant.
Microsoft conducted W3C Web Standards tests for HTML5, SVG 1.1 2nd edition, CSS3 media queries, CSS3 borders & backgrounds, CSS3 selectors, DOM level 3 core, DOM level 3 events and DOM level 2 style across a variety of browsers.
These browsers included IE9 May 2010 Preview, Firefox 3.6.3, Opera 10.52, Apple Safari 4.05, and Google Chrome 4.1 all running on Windows. The results are very promising for IE9.
A preview IE9 build can be downloaded from the IE Test Drive website.
Marcus wrote on June 4, 2010 at 5:29 am
There are 40 tests there, chosen by Microsoft. The real HTML5 testsuite will probably have around 10,000 tests. These results are just marketing noise…
Alex wrote on June 4, 2010 at 10:11 am
I’m sure it is marketing noise, but at least it’s a step in the right direction. The IE team are trying with IE9.