Internet Explorer 9 Previewed at MIX10

Microsoft has given us another sneak peak at Internet Explorer 9 at their MIX10 web designer and developer conference. Among the highlights (sources: Ars, Download Squad):

Better standards support, with a ACID 3 score of 55/100 (up from IE8's 20/100). That's better, but hopefully this will improve as development continues. The other guys are generally in the 90-100/100 range.
Faster JavaScript, doubling the speed of IE8 (but still 1/3 the speed of Chrome and Opera and 1/2 the speed of Firefox per Download Squad's benchmark). The JavaScript engine can take advantage of multiple cores.
SVG support (huyah!). It's limited at this point but growing. That would be big.
Video tag support. Did not see that coming.
GPU accelerated page rendering. It can play HD video smoothly.

If there's something I wish they were looking at for IE9 that they haven't hit on, I can't think of it. The only downer is a lack of release date (they won't even project a release year). Since they tend to time IE releases with OS releases and Windows 7 just came out, it could be a long wait.

I’m not looking for IE9 to compete for the attention of savy web users. I just want it to not suck for people that don’t know any better. And from what they’re showing now, there’s a solid chance it won’t suck.