Internet Explorer 9
- Started 15 years ago
- Last post 11 years ago
- 46 Responses
- Stugoo
In beta already:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdriv…
- insomnie0
Fail!
- ukit0
Lame!
- hans_glib0
falling balls (sic) but will it render css/html correctly yet?
- zarkonite0
wrong, WIN.
"The preview also scores an impressive 578/578 on our CSS3 Selectors Test..."
- tymeframe0
so, we can look forward to IE users upgrading to this in, oh, say five years?
- ********0
be positive - this is a step in the right direction
- ********0
who cares if it's 6, 7 8... they all suck. MS is such a lame company, their motto is "let's make it our own thing and smash/kill the others original ideas"
- jpea0
reading the arstechnica article helped a bunch. seems like they're at least doing a better job in being transparent about outstanding features and a timeline of getting them implemented. lets hope it's not derailed. it's weird, these days it seems like microsoft is doing a much better job at being forthright than their main OS competitor... Win Phone 7 looks damn hot, their HP-powered tablet looks f*in hot and maybe (?) they're browser will be at least up to par.
- bigtrickagain0
we are still supporting ie6 users at my work >_<
- Noggin0
8 versions in and they still couldnt get it right.
I wish they would stop making browsers.
- since 2003 (init release of Safari) there have been 11 updates to IE vs 33 for safari.zarkonite
- nice trolling tho, would you care to comment on Win7 vs OSX 10.5?zarkonite
- Stop with the facts.404NotFound
- are updates not a good thing Zak, moronPIZZA
- updates? wtf are you on about?inteliboy
- ukit0
Hey Microsoft, here are some falling balls for you...
- ukit0
It says they are "excited" about HTML 5. So why are they not even planning comprehensive support for it?
According to Arstechnica, despite the support for video there was "no mention of support" for many other HTML 5 technologies, such as Canvas, web workers, geolocation, at all. So this awesome new browser that won't be available for another year and won't be adopted until a few years...*still won't support many of the key elements of HTML 5. Other companies are enthusiastically adding support - with Microsoft it seems you need to hold a gun to their head to get them to do it.
Don't get me wrong, it's nice they are working on getting performance up to par with competitors. You can see on the benchmarks demo this future version of IE is *almost as good as the current working versions of Chrome, Safari and Opera when it comes to JS performance.
- One day they'll won't be so dominant anymore and then they'll listen... in the meantime let the billions pour in.zarkonite
- utopian0
Go away Microsoft, it is not going happen!
- ArmandoEstrada0
And they are proud of this? Last time i checked a 55 was a big FAIL. Safari get 100%, Firefox gets 94%. I know its beta, but dont put this up, its embarrassing.
- Me says basic reading say 95%, not 55. Where you get number?ETM
- recursive failkpl
- I think it was updated, it was 55 at one point....ArmandoEstrada
- CesareN0
haha, nice acid3 test.
- detritus0
You whipper snappers forget that it was IE who pulled internet browsing from the brink of collapse borne of Netscape's utter ineptitude - back in the day IE 4 - 5.5 were God-sent.
The JS engine in this IE9 beta sure seems fast and the letterspacing demo works a lot better than in Chrome or FF.
Of course, I don't at all doubt that MS have cherrypicked the tests... very honest of them to keep the Acid test out thee in the open like that.
Just a shame that I don't appear to be able to use the beta demo outside that test garden.
- ctrl+o to open a url -> http://ie.microsoft.…amullins
- "Netscape's utter ineptitude ", LOL, netscape is god, James H. Clark is god********
- I take it you're either young or new to the industry then, spraycan?detritus
- i dont know the full story but if you're here brownsing the net is partly because of netscape...********
- talking with you is like juggling with sand.detritus
- and Clarck is for me one of the greatest figures in computer science********
- I'm seeing a real lack of knowledge in these comments. Good show, detritus on extracting that.********
- ukit0
I'm on a Mac so I can't test it, but all those demos work great in Chrome, Safari and Firefox;)
- Meeklo0
woooaaah they got their shit together...
this thing looks amazing...
- tymeframe0
Alt + 5: Force IE5 rendering mode
Alt + 7: Force IE7 rendering mode
Alt + 8: Force IE8 rendering mode
Alt + 9: Force IE9 rendering modeThis is kind of interesting. Does IE8 or 7 have this?