Meanwhile, IE9 perhaps is the first version of Internet explorer that support supports HTML5, bringing it up to the level of Chrome and Safari as well as certain newer versions of Firefox. According to Microsoft, IE9 brings to the table expanded support for HTML5, but also hardware-accelerated graphics and text, and a new, evolved JavaScript engine, designed to boost the overall performance of the browser. Obviously, Microsoft has improved all aspects of Internet Explorer 9 since the browser was first introduced at PDC 2009. In this context, hardware acceleration is applied to both HTML5 and SVG.

So, Users should read the release notes for known issues and other information about the release. Microsoft plans to update the preview releases every eight weeks. This is mainly offered to get feedback from web developers. A beta will follow later on.

Developer Tools

The Platform Preview includes built-in Developer Tools. These tools help developers debug and understand the interaction between their sites and the browser. To open the Developer Tools, click the Debug menu and click Developer Tools, or press F12.

The status bar indicates when the page generates script errors. You can use the Developer Tools to get more information about and debug script errors.

For more information on the Developer Tools, go to the Internet Explorer Developer Center.

Document modes

You can force the Platform Preview into different document modes. To do this, click the Debug menu and select one of the Document Modes. You can also press Alt plus the numbers 5, 7, 8, or 9 to select IE5, IE7, IE8, and IE9 document modes respectively (for example, Alt + 7 for IE7). You can press Alt + 0 at any time to reset the document mode to the page default. The current document mode is shown for the currently viewed page at the left of the status bar. Information on Document Modes is available on MSDN, as well as on our blog.

Common Keyboard Shortcuts

Below is a list of available keyboard shortcuts for use in the Internet Explorer Platform Preview:

Ctrl + O: Open a webpage
F5: Refresh
F10: Home
F12: Developer Toolbar
Alt + 5: Force IE5 rendering mode
Alt + 7: Force IE7 rendering mode
Alt + 8: Force IE8 rendering mode
Alt + 9: Force IE9 rendering mode
Alt + 0: Reset Document Mode to the page default
Ctrl +/-: zoom in and out
Alt + ?: Help
Ctrl + S: Save Webpage As…
Alt + /: About

You can download the Internet Explorer 9 preview as below link

Download Internet Explorer 9 From IE TestDrive Website

Internet Explorer 9 Preview Download is a post from: TechieQuest

According to the IE Blog, the Javascript rendering is faster than the its predecessor Internet Explorer 8, IE8 rendering engine performance is poor compared to the other browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Safari. But the early build of IE9 is faster than IE8 and close to other browsers performance tested with Webkit SunSpider test. The chart below shows the relative performance of different browsers on the same machine running the SunSpider test.

IE9 will support Acid3, DirectX Direct2D and other standards, including CSS3 and HTML5. This should improve the appearance of fonts and performance of text animation without requiring changes to the sites themselves.

The most interesting feature they are working on in IE9 is the graphics acceleration, IE9 can use the graphics card for the rendering graphics and text using DirectX technology installed on windows systems. Graphics hardware acceleration means that rich, graphically intensive sites can render faster while using less CPU.

You can read more from the IE team on this topic here.

An Early Look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is a post from: TechieQuest

By using SSLExplorer web browser, there are no client side software needs to be installed on your users systems and maintenance is centralised and simple. Meanwhile, This SSL explorer can provides a quickly and simply provide full extranet access to key strategic business partners and external consultants or remotely manage servers, routers and other network hardware securely using industry standard encryption technologies to protect key information assets.

This SSL Explorer relies on Java web technology and hence requires just a standard web browser to take advantage of full remote access.

An diagram indicated how SSL explorer works :

Summary SSL-Explorer Features:

• Versions available for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003/Vista, Apple Mac OS X Tiger (or later) and Linux operating systems
• Standards compliant HTML supported on all modern browsers include Internet Explorer 5, IE6, IE7, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari browsers among many more
• Granular policy-based rights management
• Remotely browse Windows filesystems via Windows Explorer
• Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2003 supported – move vulnerable OWA servers out of the DMZ
• Reverse proxy web forwarding supported with HTTP rewrite technology
• Active Directory authentication supported
• Built-in database authentication supported
• UNIX authentication supported
• Configurable authentication schemes
• Access your desktop remotely
• Intranet resources may be securely externalized using web forwarding
• Accessible using zero-footprint VPN client
• Connect using any modern web browser
• Supports access through HTTP or SOCKS proxy
• Local and remote tunneling via SSL
• Session inactivity timeouts
• Web application URL masking
• No dedicated appliance necessary

There are 2 editions of SSL explorer which is Community Edition and Enterprise Edition which support Windows , Mac and Linux OS.

if you interest on this browser, you can download SSL-Explorer for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux from their official website

SSL-Explorer – Web Browser-Based SSL VPN Client is a post from: TechieQuest

DocuFarm allows you instantly preview documents (such as pdf, doc, ppt, rtf, ps, pps) in a thumbnail interface. For a closer look, click on the thumbnail to zoom in.

You can enable or disable the Docufarm, with a click on the small “DF” icon on the bottom-right corner and select “Turn Docufarm on” or “Turn DocuFarm Off”. You can also right-click and choose “View on docufarm…” from the context-menu, when you want to view a link on Docufarm.

You can download DocuFarm:

• Firefox Extension
• Internet Explorer Extension

Now, DocuFarm allows you to embed Docufarm in your pages with a line of javascript. Visit http://www.docufarm.com/embed.htm for more detail.

DocuFarm is a very nice document previewing tool. It will be better if I could choose which document types to open with DocuFarm.

Update: DocuFarm is closed from October 11, 2007

DocuFarm – Preview Documents in Your Web Browser is a post from: TechieQuest

Heeii provides relevant suggestions while surfing. The smart sidebar for browsers facilitates surfing by ‘predicting’ which sites are most likely of interest, and therefore relevant, to the user based on his personal preferences and browse patterns.

One of the essential elements of Heeii is finding content that matches with your interest. This is quite a challenging task. Unsurprisingly a lot of research has been done in the fields of information retrieval and filtering. Lately we have looked at improving matching by going beyond textual comparisons only.

You can download Heeii extension for Internet Explorer and Firefox free from Heeii homepage.

Heeii – Smart Sidebar Offers Unique Search and Find Method is a post from: TechieQuest

Yaplet can be used to:

• Chat with friends
• Make new friends
• Build new communities
• Find dates
• Collaborate on group work
• Telepresent
• Provide customer service
• Offer real-time support
• Educate over distance
• Play games
• Read/write reviews

With Yaplet, you can choose any name you want, you will not show up in the user list, although you will be counted in the number of users. You can then begin your chatting. Even invite someone to chat with you, toggle notifications, chat in a fresh window and so on.

There is no installation and no registration needed. Just drag a bookmark to your browser. You can generate the HTML code and add Yaplet to your homepage, blog or site. Yaplet supports Firefox 1.0+, Safari, IE6 and IE7. There are more features coming soon.

Yaplet – Adds a Chat Room to Every Site on the Internet is a post from: TechieQuest

1. Inline search – search the current page as you type. It only works with Ctrl+F.
2. ieSpell – spell checker. Unlike the spell checker from Firefox, you need to press a button before seeing the misspellings.
3. IE7Pro – adds many features available in popular Firefox extensions. You get crash recovery, ads filter (with a dumb predefined list), mouse gestures, an option to change the user agent plus some tweaks like moving the menu on top and removing the search box.
4. Feed Folder – similar to the Live Bookmarks from Firefox.
5. Developer toolbar – explore the DOM of a web page, locate and outline some elements in a page.

Via Google Operating System

Adding Firefox Adds On Features to Internet Explorer 7 is a post from: TechieQuest

It adds a button to the IE toolbar and enhance Microsoft Internet Explorer to extract and save Flash from the current browser page. With only few clicks you can store your favorite Flashes easily.

Sothink SWF Catcher for IE is a freeware, you can download it from here. For guides on how to use this Sothink SWF Catcher for IE, refer to the simple tutorial.

Sothink SWF Catcher for IE – Extract Flash from Web Browser is a post from: TechieQuest

When ever you mouse over any Internet link iReader reads all of the text on the target link and instantly returns a summary to be previewed by you right in your browser. iReader gives you the essential meaning of the link in a short prioritized list and helps you decide weather or not to click the link.

IReader is really smart in creating pop-up summary of the content behind a link. But in performance wise, it took quite some time for the popup to appear. I think this is promising product, although it’s still a little buggy. Since iReader is in beta, so give it a bit of time for it to improve.

To download iReader, visit the IReader download page to get the latest version.

iReader – Preview Site Content Without Clicking is a post from: TechieQuest

Microsoft has provided a very simple registry key to block automatic updates of IE7 on your computer. Just download and install the registry file DoNotAllow IE7. This registry file will create a IE7 blocking registry key value in HLM\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\7.0 the value DoNotAllowIE7 is set to ’1′. IE7 will not be available in Automatic Updates unless the registry value DoNotAllowIE7 is set back to ’0′.

Microsoft also provide a Blocker Toolkit for large corporates who may want to block automatic delivery of IE7 to prevent their employees from installing IE7. The free Blocker Toolkit can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center.

How to Block IE7 in Windows Update is a post from: TechieQuest