Comments on: Internet Explorer 9: A More Beautiful Web?

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Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:01:13 +0000

[...] in previous versions of Internet Explorer, has upped its game with the release of a beta of IE9 that has decent HTML5 and CSS3 support. It won’t be long before many of these technologies are widely available, and developers can [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:16:10 +0000

IE9 is, like all previous versions of IE, doomed to stay perpetually behind all the other browsers, as Microsoft’s release cycle is a matter of years, while Chrome releases a major new version every few months or sometimes weeks.

By: jackowick

jackowick — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:58:11 +0000

I gotta be honest; when hopping between my home, work, friends, and families computers, in 2010 more of the issues are because of either old hardware, dirty hard drives, or mismanaged add-ons across all the browsers listed. On a well maintained machine, I can upload/download and view anything without issues. Sorry to fanboys on all sides.

But I welcome any improvements to IE. It’s not the piece of garbage people make it out to be…

By: essay_writing

essay_writing — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:21:38 +0000

IE holds 50% of the market share only because its older versions is used in public libraries and schools. In reality, it is so not popular that I don’t think it will ever reach Mozilla’s or Opera’s success. We’ve tried IE and learned a pitiful lesson so my default browser will still be Chrome for its speed. And it also gives me a beautiful web.

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In Flash-HTML5 Battle, Silverlight Is the Big Loser — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:27:05 +0000

[...] this week, Microsoft showed off the latest version of Internet Explorer 9 — and its use of HTML5 and web standards for interactive applications was a big part of the [...]

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:01:51 +0000

I would have tested Safari if IE9 was available for Mac. I suppose I could have tested Safari, too, but I wasn’t going for a comprehensive browser shootout, I just wanted to see how well IE stacked up against the current crop. Having Safari in the test group wouldn’t have added to that.

By: Mihir

Mihir — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:25:30 +0000

95/100 is a perfect score for Acid3. The remaining 5 points that IE9 fails on are scheduled to be removed from HTM5 specification for CSS fonts. Acid3 is NOT a true reflection of browser standards compliance – it is developed by a Google employer, and is designed to give weight to certain aspects that are NEVER used in any real world webpage.

By: Stark Ravin

Stark Ravin — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:22:39 +0000

Why didn’t you include Safari (for Windows) in your test?

By: chrisdpratt

chrisdpratt — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:18:46 +0000

Color me unsurprised: IE9 is better than IE8 but still behind every other browser.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Microsoft won’t just simply dump Trident and switch to WebKit. It should be more than painfully obvious at this point that Trident is a POS. They keep polishing it but at the end of the day, a turd is a turd.

By: Robert Biggs

Robert Biggs — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:39:40 +0000

IE9 has made great progress as far as its backend technologies go. We’re talking a spanking brand new HTML5 parser, same as Webkit, Firefox and Opera. That gives us inline SVG. And they put in hardware acceleration for canvas and finally gave us CSS3 selectors. However, like very version of IE before it, they failed to give the visual styling part of CSS3 any importance. This means that all those fancy site out there for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will get rendered, well, like IE6 does. We’re talking a complete jumbled mess.
So I’m saying it like it is: IE9 is the IE6 of CSS3. Period.
If you want to see how badly IE9 fails at rendering CSS3, read this article:
http://css3wizardry.com/2010/08/14/ie9-is-the-ie6-of-css3/.