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"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?
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For one thing, IE 8 is arguably a more secure browser than Firefox due to its use of low-integrity process isolation on Windows Vista and 7. It's also more stable than Firefox in my experience, probably because of the way it isolates browser windows into separate processes. And now IE 9 has a rendering engine that's at least equal to Firefox's. It lags behind Firefox's user interface in some respects (customization,…
Are you comparing IE 9 to Firefox 4.0, or Firefox 3.6?
Hopefully Firefox 4 will catch up to the likes of Chrome and Safari (and IE 9) in terms of JavaScript performance, judging by benchmarks on the release candidate, but I haven't seen any indication that it addresses Firefox 3's fundamental design weaknesses. Of course, feel free to correct me if I've missed something in the release notes somewhere...
The fact that this guy makes something as boring as upgrading software over and over again actually enjoyable to watch is really astonishing.
He's got a good, non-emotional speaking voice, and his content:noise ratio is high. Also, the tempo of the overview is near perfect, and his choice of what video to show to go with his voiceover is flawless.
Can you please elaborate on what you mean by this?
What makes it good? What makes it non-emotional? What is an example of a bad voice? What is an example of an emotional voice?
My favourite part was IE2 getting 93/100 on the Acid3 test.
It doesn't look like he used 1.0 in the video. Did I miss something?
It doesn't look like he used 1.0 in the video. Did I miss something?
The only place I ever saw it was on a MS documentation CD, and then only because a coworker was pointing at it and laughing about how terrible it was.
I notice it's up on oldversion.com though. I suspect he skipped it because setting up a IP-enabled Windows 3.11 system was more trouble than it would be worth.
"If you’re an Internet Explorer fan..." Wait what? I was under the impression that most people use IE either because its installed by default or they are forced by their corporate overloads. Do people actually use IE because they really liked it after comparing it with other options?
I eventually decided that this person was a meatspace troll, though I could never quite be sure if he was honestly such a big fan of IE or just trying to get a rise out of people.
My favourite part was IE2 getting 93/100 on the Acid3 test.
Yeah that's weird. I don't understand how that happened. If anyone happens to have IE2 around I'd love to be able to study this.
When I tried loading the Acid Tests websites in IE2 (from the utilu collection on XP SP2) it gave me the error "Site Temporarily Unavailable (error id: 'bad_httpd_conf')". Not sure what's up.