Update: Here is a full set of release notes on the platform preview (called that as it is more of a shell than a browser.
Rey Bango (Ajaxian and now Microsoft employee) will do a post that rounds up the news from MIX today where the IE9 team shared a first preview release of IE9 that comes with new features from HTML5+ (video, SVG, CSS3, addEventListener, JavaScript compilation spread across multicore, and more). All of this is hardware accelerated. Yum. Missing was news on canvas and I didn’t see deets on CSS transforms and the like (which would be awesome with hardware acceleration too).
John Resig just got on stage to talk about the collaboration between jQuery and Microsoft and how Microsoft is now contribution resources and code. For example, templates (all on GitHub which gives you:….MORE
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