Microsoft offers an early look at IE 9

Amidst all the talk of hardware accelerated text rendering (seriously?) and javascript performance that no longer lags by an order of magnitude (seriously!) there’s nothing about fixing the glaringly broken rendering issues that continue to cost developers real time. PNG transparency anyone?

With that said, I’m cautiously optimistic that every new version of IE gets us one step closer to a world where we can forget about IE 6 forever.