14 DAY TRIAL // Internet Explorer 9 is clearly superior to Safari in one demonstration provided by Microsoft during the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, Spain on February 14, 2011.
Make sure to watch the video embedded below for the IE9 vs. Safari comparison that the Redmond company did by placing side by side a Windows Phone 7 HTC device and an iPhone 4.
At MWC 2011, the software giant announced IE9 Mobile, a flavor of Internet Explorer 9 tailored to Windows Phone 7. IE9 Mobile is planned for delivery to WP7 users by the end of this year.
By the end of 2011, owners of Windows Phone 7 smartphones will be able to enjoy the same browsing experiences as those running the next generation of IE on the Windows client, is the promise from Microsoft.
“IE9 on the desktop provides consumers and developers with great HTML5 support that takes full advantage of the hardware for great performance. IE9 on Windows Phones will as well,” revealed Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer.
“We’ve worked closely across the Windows Phone and IE teams over the last few months to deliver the same IE9 browsing engine—the same code, the same standards support, the same hardware acceleration, the same security and privacy protections—for Windows Phone as we’ve delivered on the desktop.”
IE9 is a fully hardware accelerated browser, with the GPU being leveraged in order to power unmatched web experiences when dealing with video, text, audio, HTML5 content etc.
The demo presented by the software giant involves a comparison between IE9 Mobile on Windows Phone 7 and Safari on iPhone 4’s iOS.
Users can try the FishIE Tank test themselves over at the IE9 Test Drive Center by using any browser, including the recently released IE9 RC.
“The demo at Mobile World Congress this morning showed different mobile browsers visiting a site much like the IE Test Drive site.
“The changes to the test drive site for the demo involved making it more mobile friendly, for example, accommodating screen size and orientation and touch. The underlying demo code and patterns from the IE Test Drive, like FishIE, remain unchanged,” Hachamovitch explained.
IE’s Corporate VP underlined that IE9 and IE9 Mobile have been built to deliver similar performance, security, privacy, etc.
IE9 Mobile and IE9 sharing the same code means that the core of the two browsers is the same, powered by the same engine, with differences resulting from the need to have IE9 Mobile adapted to mobile devices.
Most importantly, Microsoft continues to keep up its promise that developers will be able to write code once and have it work seamlessly across not only IE9 and non-IE desktop browsers, but also on smartphones.
“Quality, hardware-accelerated HTML5 on mobile devices will make the mobile Web significantly better. Developers will be able to use the same markup to deliver great interoperable HTML5 experiences on mobile—a for example H.264 video on Windows, iOS, and Android devices, and great CSS3, SVG, Canvas, ECMAScript 5, and WOFF support.
“Consumers will be able to enjoy these great experiences with great hardware-accelerated performance as well as security and privacy, using Tracking Protection on their Windows Phones,” Hachamovitch added.
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC) Build 9.0.8080.16413 is available for download here.