IE9 preview touts enhanced HTML5

Microsoft has released a third platform preview update for Internet Explorer 9, showing off improved HTML5 performance and hardware acceleration.

According to Microsoft, the work-in-progress Internet Explorer 9 will support Canvas graphics technology and other audio-visual tags laid out in the HTML 5 standard.

As part of its schedule of releasing developer updates every eight weeks, Microsoft showed off performance enhancements and said that deeper integration of IE9 into the Windows operating system made better use of a PC's power.

"Because some browsers run on many different operating systems, there can be a tendency to use a "least common denominator" approach to implementing HTML5," said Dean Hachamovitch, Internet Explorer general manager in a blog post.

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