TLDR/W: Hardware accelerated IE9 HTML5 canvas beats non-hardware accelerated Chrome 6 development HTML5 canvas.
Does Chrome have HW acceleration otherwise? Serious question.
[deleted]
Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
41–50 of 53 posts
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#42Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#43What a misleading headline.
"Internet Explorer 9 beats Chrome in hardware-accelerated canvas rendering, fails to beat several other browsers (video)".
Much better. But hey, gets less clicks right?
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#44Using 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.
Am I the only one who's actually excited that Microsoft is actually making some very tangible improvements to the IE platform?
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#45Using 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.
Look, I really dislike Microsoft, but we're not allowed to discuss why on HN. :-) However, IE9 really can catapult the Internet to the next level by being highly standards compliant and having great performance. Let's give them credit on this one. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera competing against a strong contender from Microsoft is a great thing.
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would IT departments be pissed off if IE9 was fully backwards compatible? Honest question.
The entire point of the suggestion is to break compatibility with IE6 so that the rest of the world can stop having to code against it. Breaking compatibility with IE6 has freaking enormous switching costs for some users. (Let me hum a few bars: you use a $3 million CRM which only supports IE6, and the company which bought the company which made it has since folded. This is hypothetical, but not very hypothetical, if…
> $3 million CRM which only supports IE6, and the company which bought the company which made it has since folded.
You can make it entirely realistic by saying the company that made the CRM now has a version that supports Firefox and IE7-8 but it costs $5M to upgrade the license. I've had so many of those cases at my current job.
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#47TLDR/W: Hardware accelerated IE9 HTML5 canvas beats non-hardware accelerated Chrome 6 development HTML5 canvas.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/24/4-way-html5-speed-te...
It beat hardware accelerated chrome as well.
Firefox 3.7 actually came out on type by a bit in the end at a 1000 fish.
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's frustrating to me is that they could fix the problem of high usage of old IE versions. They just seem to be unwilling to. They could add in IE7's and IE8's rendering engines into IE9 as compatibility modes, push out IE9 as a forced or automatic update and have HTML5 ready to use in a few weeks. But they seem to be more worried potential whining from update-averse users than holding back the technological progr…
IE9 does have compatibility modes for IE7 and IE8 already (somewhere on the official IE blog there's a flow chart describing how IE decides what rendering mode to use for a given page; it's terrifying) My understanding is that IE's entire user-base consists of update-averse users these days - everybody who can stomach the idea of changing browsers is already using Chrome or Firefox.
Not quite. IE8 is making huge gains in market share, but almost entirely at the expense of IE6 and IE7. The overall IE marketshare is holding somewhat steady at 60%. I think what you're seeing is Windows users are perfectly happy to take an upgrade that Microsoft offers, but either afraid to branch out to a non-MS browser or else just don't know how to do so. Windows 7 shipping with IE8 has a lot to do with it, too, as people buy new laptops, etc, and never touch the browser it comes with.
Reference: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-IE-6-Share-Falls-...
I wish Chrome would take more from IE than it is from FF, but it is good to see IE6 drop so much. It's under 5% now.
Note: these are US numbers. If I recall correctly, the global numbers are shaded a little more non-IE.
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#49Using 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.
"Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish." It's not a contrived example, as someone already pointed out. "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." This is entirely irrelevant. Why is this comment being upvoted?
The trust has been lost with a lot of developers. I guess they are going to have to earn it again.
Re: Internet Explorer 9 destroys Chrome 6 in HTML5 speed test (video)
#50Using 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.
Look, I really dislike Microsoft, but we're not allowed to discuss why on HN. :-) However, IE9 really can catapult the Internet to the next level by being highly standards compliant and having great performance. Let's give them credit on this one. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera competing against a strong contender from Microsoft is a great thing.
Lets give them credit when ie9 has 97%+ market share of the IE browsers.
Anybody can make a nice demo, it is getting people to use it that matters.