Will Firefox beat IE9?

Posted on November 27th, 2009. Written by mobiledummy.

It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft’s PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the browser’s outdated reliance upon the (very) old GDI rendering library, with new code utilizing Direct2D — a library that borrows processing power from the GPU. But with the project only having begun last October, it could still be several months before Microsoft creates still more features to make IE9 worthy of a point-release.

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