Internet Explorer 9 promises to have first-rate HTML5 support when it eventually ships—at least for the features it will support. But HTML5 has become a label for a big set of interrelated Web authoring specifications, and Microsoft's new browser won't cover them all. Features whose specifications are currently unstable and still undergoing extensive changes won't be found in Internet Explorer 9, because Microsoft wants its browser to support only those features that have stable specifications. This forces developers who are interested in the new, unstable features to look at browsers other than Internet Explorer.
That could change starting today, with Microsoft's launch of HTML5Labs. Microsoft will release prototype implementations for HTML5 features that are currently in flux. These prototypes will slot into the browser, extending its HTML5 support to cover new and unstable specifications, giving developers the opportunity to try them out and provide feedback to W3C, the Web standards body, to help guide their development and future progress. The first two prototypes, launched today, give Internet Explorer 9 support for WebSockets, which allows scripting to engage in complex bidirectional communication with servers, and IndexedDB, which gives scripts access to a simple database so that they can store and retrieve data in the browser.
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