Well finally internet explorer 9 has arrived into release candidate

Like Firefox the new release candidate adds a new Tracking Protection feature and an accompanying Microsoft system which aims to give users the capability of blocking snooping on browsing habits via the use of tracking codes.

Other improvements include support for the emerging HTML5 and rendering and script performance improvements. IE9 makes extensive use of hardware acceleration but in order to do so is not compatible with operating systems earlier than Windows Vista, which will mean the vast army of XP users out there will still be using the outdated IE8.

I have downloaded and tried IE9, while I haven't tested extensively it frustratingly failed to work on the first CSS3 feature I tried. text-shadow: It seems may be part of IE10 so its back to conditional statements and hacks.

So to celebrator the release candidate lets take a look at how we expect conditional statements for IE9 to work

This is placed in the head section on your site and would be linked to the file path of your new ie9 style sheet.