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Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

#11

Post by galapago » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 5:55 PM UTC

Internet Explorer SUCKS™[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMOBKHqqc8

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

#12

Post by wnevets » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #2

The blog and the 11% for IE11 landing page both imply that if you complete the challenge, you will win the prizes described. For instance, the blog entry says: "If you can get 11% better page load performance from your site, we'll send you and your team some 11 goodness." I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like a valid unilateral contract to me. Similarly, the landing page says: "Show us how you got 11% better page load…

Well now I just feel cheated. How do I un-vote up a story?

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by volandovengo » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

Cool idea. Unfortunate that they limit things to the first 11 responses.

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by justgar » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

jawns wrote: post #2

The blog and the 11% for IE11 landing page both imply that if you complete the challenge, you will win the prizes described. For instance, the blog entry says: "If you can get 11% better page load performance from your site, we'll send you and your team some 11 goodness." I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like a valid unilateral contract to me. Similarly, the landing page says: "Show us how you got 11% better page load…

@jawns. We have updated the blog post to clarify. I encourage you to try out the new tools and I hope the perf testing is worth the pizza+.

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by lampe3 » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 5:59 PM UTC

"IE11 for Windows 8.1 is our fastest browser yet – 9% faster than IE10 and nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser."

30% then what competitive browser?

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by nwh » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

Doesn't make up for the fact that I spent most of my time writing workaround for the stupid rendering bugs their "30% faster" browser introduces. Even just basic CSS layouts and constantly wrong in IE.

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by chasing » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

Microsoft now gets to continue to reap what they've sown after spending a solid decade pissing off web developers...

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by FridayWithJohn » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 6:02 PM UTC

"nearly 30% faster than the nearest competitive browser." - Micro$oft. Absolute crap as can be seen here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413632,00.asp

I'm not loyal at all to any browser. I swop and change (used to use IE, then went to Opera, then Firefox and now to Chrome), but when I hear obvious lies such as IE is 30% faster than any other browser I all of a sudden want to permanently leave IE alone

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by calbear81 » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

These must be really cheap pizzas because last time I checked you couldn't get 11 pizzas at Costco for $120.

Re: The 11% for IE11 challenge

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Post by ye » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

Aardwolf wrote: post #3

Am I the only person who is sensitive to JPEG artifacts? Look at this image from the article. Why did they use such low quality JPEG? http://blogs.windows.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver...

Why did they use JPEG at all? It's a perfect image for PNG.

Pure incompetence.