Here are a few shots of those demos and some related screens.Īs always you can grab the new release (it should be up any time now) and find out more at the IE 9 Test Drive web site.Īnd no, there's no word yet on the schedule or when we can expect an end-user beta, or the final release. In addition to having now submitted a total of over 1600 compliance tests to the W3C, Microsoft has also released a number of new demos that show off features supported in this release.
And its SunSpider score is very close to that of Safari 5, and above those for Chrome 4 and the shipping version of Firefox. The browser's ACID 3 score is up from 68 to 83, for example. In keeping with the creeping improvements we're seeing across the Platform Preview releases, PP3 includes further improvements to both performance and standards compliance. IE 9 PP3 also supports ECMAScript 5, the latest version of JavaScript, as well as the Web Open Font standard.
Microsoft tells me that today's browsers use less than 10 percent of the computation power available in a typical PC, whereas with IE 9, you'll get a better experience if you have better hardware. This time, the focus is on GPU-backed HTML 5 canvas elements, so that all text and graphics are hardware accelerated, as well as HTML 5 audio and video. Since it’s still in Beta, I won’t replace my existing Kindle Previewer. Amazon has released a new version of Kindle Previewer, the tool many developers use to convert EPUBs to MOBIs. IE 9 PP3 continues the trends started with previous Platform Previews: It's a developer-oriented release, with no hints about a new UI or any other end-user features. Kevin Callahan FebruKindle, Kindle Previewer, resources, Tools 10 Comments. They've been far more regular than I anticipated, to be honest.
#KINDLE PREVIEWER 3 BETA UPDATE#
IE 9 PP3 follows the previous release, PP2, by about seven weeks PP1 was released during MIX'10 in March, at which time Microsoft said it would update the pre-release browser on a regular schedule. I’m especially looking forward to Kindle screenshots showing your controverted ebook it is going to be nifty to see that readers finally have access to the proprietary features Amazon launched last year.Today, Microsoft is announcing the third Platform Preview (PP3) release of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next web browser version. And if you have trouble with the plugin, or want to offer feedback and contribute to its development, please join the ongoing discussion over at MobileRead Forums. If you would like to try it yourself, I’d love to hear about your success and failures. (The plugin was just released, and it calls on a beta app, so this is not unexpected.) I’ve tried to convert a dozen ebooks over the weekend, and all attempts threw errors. Or at least that is the way it is supposed to work it won’t work for me (one of my competitors is having better luck, however). The plugin will only work with Epub files, so any ebook you want to convert to KFX will first have to be converted to Epub.
#KINDLE PREVIEWER 3 BETA INSTALL#
Install the KFX plugin (from inside calibre).If you would like to try it yourself, here’s what you need to do:
It calls on that beta release of the Kindle Previewer tool to make the ebooks, and then add them to your calibre library. When Amazon announced the KFX format last year, they teased ebookophiles with features like hyphenation, improved kerning, and dropcaps, features which one could find in ebooks bought in the Kindle Store but you couldn’t make for yourself.Įarly last month Amazon released a beta version of the Kindle Previewer tool which lets ebook makers convert and preview their ebooks to see how they will look in the new format, and now there’s an even easier at-home option.Ī new plugin for Calibre called KFX Output lets you convert ebooks into KFX format to make use of Amazon’s enhanced typesetting.
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