IE9 Coming to the Mobile Web Market

Well, it looks as though IE 9 is coming to the mobile web market. Microsoft has been feverishly testing their new IE9 combo web browser. Now, they want to add the same new standards, compatability, etc., to their mobile browser.

Microsoft has set up a Microsoft IE 9 demo site for all to see the new IE9 standard. We took time to check it out, and we must admit it is headed in a good direction. Perhaps that is why Joe Marini is saying:

"It's organized essentially the same way as the original, except laid out to be easily read and used on the mobile form factor... We've ported over some of the more popular samples from the full version of the IE Test Drive and have developed a few of our own mobile-specific ones too, including the demos that Joe Belfiore showed at MIX 11 earlier this year."

"It's important to note that even though we use the same core rendering engines on both the desktop and mobile versions of IE and adhere to the concept of 'same markup' when we produce our samples, we felt that it was worth creating a mobile test drive site to illustrate how we approach some of the key issues that developers face when creating mobile-optimized content: screen sizes, device capabilities, etc.," Marini said.

So, let's examine the comments for a section, especially since we know how s unsatisfied web developers have been with IE for some time. The phrase "Same markup" refers to Microsoft's stated goal that a Web developer should be able to write a single version of a Web page that will look the same in all browsers. Now the rest of the browser world has been trying to do this for some time, under the title of web browser standards. While Microsoft might like to world to think that this is new news, it is not. We just finally have that organization paying attention to standards again.