IE9 predictions
Published on 14 Mar 2010 at 9:22 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.
My predictions for Internet Explorer 9
- Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010.
- Border-radius support!
- At least a portion of the SVG spec will be supported.
- Native support for newly introduced HTML5 elements. They may not actually function, but no longer will one need JavaScript in order to style them.
- Native Drag-and-drop
- DOM2 events.
- DOMContentLoaded support.
- Box-shadow and text-shadow
- @font-face to support truetype fonts
- opacity
Stretch predictions:
- CSS gradients
- CSS transitions and transforms
- W3C Ranges/Selection
- Video element to support H.264 and ogg vorbis
- Audio element to support mp3 and ogg.
- DOM3 events
- Web Forms 2.0