Chrome has gained a large following in its short history on a reputation for speed. According to a new round of benchmarking, it looks like Internet Explorer 9 could actually give Google's browser a run for its money. We heard the new version had improved HTML5 support, but they weren't kidding. In the newly released Preview 3, IE9 managed to beat Chrome soundly on a test of HTML5 canvas speed. It's described as "orders of magnitude faster"
Hardware accelerated canvas rendering is one of the new features in HTML5. This sort of content is expected to become more common in the coming years. But it isn't all good news on the benchmarking front for Microsoft. The SunSpider JavaScript benchmark found the new IE9 preview to be 30% slower than Chrome.
Keeping in mind that this is still a preview build of the browser, we're feeling pretty optimistic. It's hard to see moving to IE as our main browser, but it would be nice if people had a decent browser on their PCs out of the box. Hit this link to see the video.
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