On the php|architect blog today Orlando Medina points out a few goodies in Internet Explorer 9 that could be useful for PHP developers out there.

Microsoft has some catching up to do in terms of standards compatibility, but they are also doing some good things with this browser. They are bringing some much needed web-standards compatibility, in addition to some JavaScript performance enhancements.

Handy new features include better HTML5 support, CSS3 support, XHTML parsing, Javascript compilation and an overall trend towards a more standards-based approach that Microsoft hasn't worried about in a good while now. He also mentions the OData toolkit that lets your web applications speak the same "language" according to Microsoft's more unified specification.