IE9 Platform Preview 3: video, audio, canvas, and fonts too
- Wednesday, 23 June 2010 16:00
The third release of the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview arrived today. The new version brings long-awaited support for HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements, 2D graphics using the <canvas> element, and support for embedded fonts using the WOFF standard. To top it all off, Platform Preview 3 also updates the Internet Explorer's new Chakra JavaScript engine to support the recent ECMAScript 5 specification.
Video tags enable sites to offer YouTube-like video without a dependence on proprietary plugins like Adobe's Flash or Microsoft's own Silverlight. With support now found in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera, Internet Explorer is the odd man out, a flaw that Internet Explorer 9 seeks to remedy.
