Microsoft has updated its unsophisticated preview of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), adding support for quite a few critical HTML5 standards and boasting that the browser is earlier than ever.

The IE9 Platform Preview is not a developed browser, but in its place features a very exposed bones interface wrapped around Microsoft's latest rendering and JavaScript engines.

When Microsoft IE9 entered in mid-March, the corporation committed to updating the IE9 preview about every eight weeks awaiting it issues a public beta. Microsoft has not revealed a release date for any public beta or the ultimate version of IE9.

The third preview released was introduces support for HTML5's Canvas part the tag allows site designers place in lively, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images into pages plus for hardware-speed up audio and video tags.

Microsoft has pinned IE9's effort to competition or exceed the speeds of competitors on the browser's aptitude to offload text, picture and video rendering chores to the PC's graphics processor, radically rising performance.

"This is the primary browser that utilizes hardware speeding up for everything on Web page, on by defaulting," said Dean Hachamovich, the browser's general manager, in an admission on the IE blog.