Switch Systems Blog

After playing with the IE9 beta, we’ve identified some issues web developers may have with their existing javascript/css code. Here are the details:

• Many IE workarounds for canvas management (i.e. excanvas hacks) are not now required. Hit the jump for a jquery.jqplot.js diff file.
• Some other random IE8 fixes are now no longer required, but are still triggered by IE9. Hit the jump for an updated TinyMCE build.
• IE specific CSS stylings are now not really required as they once were, so if you have CSS conditional definitions, update them to exclude IE9 (again, hit the jump for how we’ve updated this)
• IE9′s user agent is now Mozilla 5.0 instead of Mozilla 4.0 (hooray!). This blog post explains all.

For those of you still running windows XP look away now – this new IE9 beta will only run on Vista/7/2008. But for the rest of us, Microsoft have built upon IE8 and added a raft of new GUI features and hardware graphics acceleration….