MICROSOFT PREVIEWS INTERNET EXPLORER 9.0
Leaked screenshot shows clean-cut Internet Explorer 9.0 following in Chrome’s footsteps…
Microsoft has revealed details about Internet Explorer (1E) 9.0′s revamped user interface (UI), touting new features such as quick-release tabs and a Chrome-like combined address and search bar.
Although the company has issued several developer previews of IE 9.0 since March, those versions lacked a UI. Early previews presented the browser without even basic navigational aids, such as a Back button.
The details, leaked by Microsoft Russia’s press site, were promptly removed. But the leaked images suggest IE 9.0′s UI has been influenced by those rival browsers.
A screen shot displayed on the website(and pictured above right) shows a Firefox-esque design to the Back/Forward buttons. The UI appears to dispense with traditional menus, put tabs on top of the browser window and combine the address and search bars, a move taken from Google Chrome’s playbook.
At the far right, IE 9.0 displays a trio of icons – one of which is clearly Home -that are likely to lead to more menus and the browser’s bookmark manager.
The text on the web page supported the hints provided by the screenshot that Microsoft will ‘Chromify’ IE 9.0′s interface by mimicking Google’s browser’s UI.
“Your browser isn’t overloaded with navigation elements and, compared with other browsers, leaves more space for the site,” a translation of the promotional copy read. “Now the user sees only what is necessary for navigation.”
These changes are no real surprise.Other browser makers, notably Firefox developer Mozilla, have headed in that direction too, as they follow the lead of Google and its cleaner-looking Chrome.
Firefox 4.0, for example, will feature tabs on top and eliminate the traditional Windows menus above the browser’s content area.
IE 9.0′s marketing material also described a way to pin sites to the Taskbar, simply by dragging a tab to it. Those site scan then be accessed with a single click.”Anchored sites are seamlessly integrated into the navigation system of Windows 7,”claimed the marketing blurb. “Thus, the work of such sites is as simple and familiar as with other Windows applications.”
IE 9.0 will also use the Aero UI of Vista and Windows 7, with a feature dubbed’ quick release tabs’. By dragging IE 9.0′s window to the side of the screen, Aero’s Snap feature will automatically display two tabs in side-by-side frames.
The new browser will run only on Vista and Windows 7, not XP. IE 9.0′s first beta was due to become available for download on 15 September, while industry experts have speculated that the browser will ship in April 2011.
Leaked screenshot shows clean-cut Internet Explorer 9.0 following in Chrome’s footsteps…
Microsoft has revealed details about Internet Explorer (1E) 9.0′s revamped user interface (UI), touting new features such as quick-release tabs and a Chrome-like combined address and search bar.
Although the company has issued several developer previews of IE 9.0 since March, those versions lacked a UI. Early previews presented the browser without even basic navigational aids, such as a Back button.
The details, leaked by Microsoft Russia’s press site, were promptly removed. But the leaked images suggest IE 9.0′s UI has been influenced by those rival browsers.
A screen shot displayed on the website(and pictured above right) shows a Firefox-esque design to the Back/Forward buttons. The UI appears to dispense with traditional menus, put tabs on top of the browser window and combine the address and search bars, a move taken from Google Chrome’s playbook.
At the far right, IE 9.0 displays a trio of icons – one of which is clearly Home -that are likely to lead to more menus and the browser’s bookmark manager.
The text on the web page supported the hints provided by the screenshot that Microsoft will ‘Chromify’ IE 9.0′s interface by mimicking Google’s browser’s UI.
“Your browser isn’t overloaded with navigation elements and, compared with other browsers, leaves more space for the site,” a translation of the promotional copy read. “Now the user sees only what is necessary for navigation.”
These changes are no real surprise.Other browser makers, notably Firefox developer Mozilla, have headed in that direction too, as they follow the lead of Google and its cleaner-looking Chrome.
Firefox 4.0, for example, will feature tabs on top and eliminate the traditional Windows menus above the browser’s content area.
IE 9.0′s marketing material also described a way to pin sites to the Taskbar, simply by dragging a tab to it. Those site scan then be accessed with a single click.”Anchored sites are seamlessly integrated into the navigation system of Windows 7,”claimed the marketing blurb. “Thus, the work of such sites is as simple and familiar as with other Windows applications.”
IE 9.0 will also use the Aero UI of Vista and Windows 7, with a feature dubbed’ quick release tabs’. By dragging IE 9.0′s window to the side of the screen, Aero’s Snap feature will automatically display two tabs in side-by-side frames.
The new browser will run only on Vista and Windows 7, not XP. IE 9.0′s first beta was due to become available for download on 15 September, while industry experts have speculated that the browser will ship in April 2011.
