Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
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Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
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Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#2This is not good news. IE is going to stick around a lot longer now -- sigh!
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#3This is not good news. IE is going to stick around a lot longer now -- sigh!
no, this is somewhat good news. IE was going to stick around for a long time anyways, because its the default windows browser and there will always be people who don't know better than to use the default.
this will just hasten the migration away. its probably not a huge win for anyone with respect to directly converting it into migrations to another browser, because the people who were clueless about switching probably still will be.
its just a really nice selling point when you have the ear of someone, trying to convert them.
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#4If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top.
Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here".
Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2 years. We decided to release it as a patch to your browser. Our brief foray into this area has improved your best effort by 10x".
Ouch!
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#5Using Moore's law does that mean Google's development is approximately 6 years ahead of MS?
(8 times faster code doubles the speed once, doubles the speed twice, and doubles the speed a third time.)
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#6If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top. Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here". Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2 years. We decided to release it as a patch to your browser. Our brief foray into this area has improved your best effort by 10x". Ouch!
This is misleading. Webkit, the core component of Chrome, has been worked on for far more than 2 years.
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#7On one hand, I think this is pretty funny.
On the other, I think it's a stunning display of just how much muscle Google really has to flex (and perhaps more importantly, how much they're willing to flex).
It will be interesting to see how Google continues to treat companies it considers competitors over the next few years. The big guys like Microsoft will be able to handle it; but the smaller guys might have to start getting a little worried.
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#8If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top. Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here". Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2 years. We decided to release it as a patch to your browser. Our brief foray into this area has improved your best effort by 10x". Ouch!
This is misleading. Webkit, the core component of Chrome, has been worked on for far more than 2 years.
Except they only benchmarked javascript performance. V8 is only about 2 years old.
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#9If I had to rank-order the various humiliations I've seen, this comes near the top. Microsoft: "here's our best stab at what a great browser looks like - and it took us 14 years to get here". Google: "we've been working on a codebase for 2 years. We decided to release it as a patch to your browser. Our brief foray into this area has improved your best effort by 10x". Ouch!
This is misleading. Webkit, the core component of Chrome, has been worked on for far more than 2 years.
That's very true, but Internet Explorer has been worked on even longer still. Also, the V8 javascript engine is Google's own.
Re: Internet Explorer 8 runs ten times faster with Google Chrome plug-in
#10Using Moore's law does that mean Google's development is approximately 6 years ahead of MS? (8 times faster code doubles the speed once, doubles the speed twice, and doubles the speed a third time.)
I'd rather say they're lagging regarding Wirth's law.