IE9 good news: HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript speed.

For those of you that might have missed the news Microsoft is throwing its annual Professional Developer Conference (PDC), which is where they trot out new additions or upgrades to their various platforms for the developers in attendance. From their development tools like VisualStudio to the next release of Office this is where we find out about what is in the pipeline that we will actually see and use.

And today we saw what was coming in regards to the next release of Internet Explorer, otherwise known as, or cursed as IE9. In his keynote speech today Steven Sinofsky let us in on the early work being done to bring a better IE to the market and given that the competition is getting more heated all the time one hopes that they actually do something right this time.

While there were cheers about support for the HTML5 and CSS3 specification there are some of us that were hoping for one major change under the hood.

I have written on more than one occasion that I really think that if Microsoft wants to stay in the browser game they need to seriously consider swapping out the Trident rendering engine and replace it with the WebKit engine. It appears from posts by manan and Harry McCracken also had the same hope but it turns out that all three of us will have to keep shouting into the wind as Microsoft is sticking with the Trident engine.

For some additional info on what we can possibly expect in the next version of IE9 here are some additional links for you to check out.

Internet Explorer 9 – First Information, Future Direction – The Next Web / Alex Wilhelm
Microsoft Announces IE9: Focus on Standards and Speed – ReadWriteWeb / Frederic Lardinios
Microsoft officially announces Internet Explorer 9 – Tech.Blorge / Sean P. Aune
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers – IEBlog