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Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.

...why do you not /want/ it to be true?

Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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Congrats to the IE team for getting back on the rails!

More competition in this area is a bonus - now we just have to ensure that microsoft continues to sound out valid reasoning to get the vast proportion of Enterprise that still is on IE6 updated (and thus shift their legacy apps from proprietary hacks to a far more future "proofed" (resistant really) standards base).

Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish. Yawn. Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve.

Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.

It's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with software rendering? No, of course not. That would be crazy.

Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)

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post #2

It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.

It's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with software rendering? No, of course not. That would be crazy.

Chrome is currently the fastest at this; what else would you have them test against?
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