As of this morning - with the latest update package - IE9 doesn't wave the flag saying that it's "modified the page to protect you," but evidence is that it still "modifies the page." It just doesn't tell you about it every time.

The evidence is:

"Page | Save As | Web Page Complete htm, html" aborts the save with an error message saying that an "object of script not found."

"Page | Save As | Web Archive .mht single file" aborts the save with an error message saying that an "object of script not found."

"Page | Save As | Web Page HTML Only" appears to be the only (semi)functional way to save anything, and it can't include any externally linked (scripted link) parts seen in the page in the browser.

"File | Print" or using the "print icon" on the toolbar results in an error indicating "script erro - target not found for ...." and the print fails.

A "peculiarity" of the description of the XSS Filter is that a script executed before/during download of the page apparently can show items called by a script in the browser, but once in TEMP the script is blocked from executing a scripted "external" connection on your machine to retrieve the targets separately, so neither saves nor prints can be completed.

(But I'm mostly just guessing.)

A "concept demonstration" for a pre-beta IE10 appears to have been distributed to a limited group recently, perhaps yesterday, so maybe we can look forward to things getting even better than ...

John