IE9 demo: falling balls

Microsoft showed off IE9 Platform Preview on Tuesday; headline features include support for Web standards and faster performance.

One such standard is SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), and one technology benefiting from better performance is Web-based JavaScript programs.

This view of a demonstration shows off the abilities chiefly of the faster JavaScript, long a sore spot for Internet Explorer performance, but the balls themselves are rendered with SVG. It includes a physical simulation of the balls interacting in gravity.