As the World Cup kicks off we want to flag to you again that you can easily follow all the matches online with our dedicated World Cup webslice:
http://www.ieaddons.com/gb/details/news/World_Cup_Coverage_2010__UK/
Real-world games are a great way of testing a human being, from the mental dexterity needed to analyse your teams strategy on the go to having the lightening fast reactions to take opportunities as they materialise in the game.
The virtual world is no different. This week we’re looking forward to IE9 and giving a taste of the special preview you can download from here – http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ Our team of developers have devised some pretty crafty games to test our the new browsers speed, graphics capabilities and new navigation features.
One game, Browser Flip, measures how fast your browser is at handling HTML, java script and CSS at the same time. See how quickly you can flip over the tiles by running your mouse over them in IE8 and IE9 by going to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/11BrowserFlip/Default.html
Another improved feature is improved map zooming. Have a go by installing the IE9 preview and going to http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/10MapZooming/Default.html
An important part of our testing for IE9 is to make sure graphics appear smoothly on the screen for you – upping the number of frames per second so that everything flows naturally and doesn’t flick or stutter. The final test you can try with the IE preview is of our Flickr Explorer:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/10FlickrExplorer/Default.html
These little games give our team here some real feedback on IE so we can make our browser even stronger. It’s a team effort, so please get involved, give our new browser preview a kick around http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ and let us know – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/19/the-internet-explorer-testcenter-welcome-page-clarification-corrections.aspx - what we can do to run away with the best browser trophy in your eyes.
