IE9 Predictions results.

Published on 21 Jun 2011 at 9:43 pm.
Filed under Web stuff.

This post is a follow up to my previous post.

This post was actually written following the platform preview, but apparently was never published. I am editing it slightly and posting it now that IE9 is out.

1. Microsoft will officially make an announcement for it at Microsoft MIX 2010. – correct
2. Border-radius support! – correct
3. At least a portion of the SVG spec will be supported. – correct
4. Native support for newly introduced HTML5 elements. They may not actually function, but no longer will one need JavaScript in order to style them. – correct
5. Native Drag-and-drop – yes
6. DOM2 events. – correct
7. DOMContentLoaded support. -yes
8. Box-shadow and text-shadow- box-shadow yes, text-shadow no – WTF!!!!!
9. @font-face to support truetype fonts – yes
10. opacity – correct

So that was 6 for 10 that are a lock right now. What about the stretch predictions?

• CSS gradients – coming in IE10
• CSS transitions and transforms – coming in IE10
• W3C Ranges/Selection – correct
• Video element to support H.264 and ogg vorbis – We know it supports H.264, but won’t support ogg. Does support WebM if you have it installed.
• Audio element to support mp3 and ogg. – We know it supports mp3 (and AAC), but won’t support ogg
• DOM3 events – correct
• Web Forms 2.0 – none

So that is two fully correct and two partials.