Porting IE9

[aviv00]

is it possible ? to make it work on XP ?

[MagicAndre1981]

no, Direct2D/WDDM are unavailable on XP.

[aviv00]

no, Direct2D/WDDM are unavailable on XP.

yea but its should not stop ie9 working on XP

[Glenn9999]

yea but its should not stop ie9 working on XP

Actually it does, since IE9 uses those things. For IE9 to work on XP, a project to emulate those things (similar to KernelEx for 98/ME) would be necessary.

edit: I would be remiss to point out that an attempt at one does indeed already exist, Alky for Applications 1.1, though it is short of a few functions required for the installer (and I'm sure more for IE itself, but I'm sure there will be a press on the developers to fix it in 1.2 if there will be one?). But you can already use that to run a number of Vista things on XP.

Edited September 17, 2010 by Glenn9999

[mjdbb1]

I think that IE is kind of a special case when it comes to porting, as it's so tightly integrated into Windows. However these issues will probably come up more as software gradually stops supporting XP. However given XP's still wide use on many systems I think we'll see a project (or projects) like KernelEX to help port newer applications to XP.