An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by johns » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:00 PM UTC

An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
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Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by drcode » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:26 PM UTC

:(

still no canvas or svg... jerks.

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by rbanffy » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:32 PM UTC

drcode wrote: post #2

:( still no canvas or svg... jerks.

At least it's almost as fast as the slowest competitor...

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by bugs » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:33 PM UTC

I wonder when or even if the attitude seen in the comments will spread out to the rest of the computer community. (IE is the devil)

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by drcode » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:35 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #3

drcode wrote: post #2

:( still no canvas or svg... jerks.

At least it's almost as fast as the slowest competitor...

Yeah, I love how they say IE is no longer an "outlier."

They need to use trickery in the graph so that it's hard to tell that it's still 3x slower than Chrome or Safari.

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by dschobel » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:40 PM UTC

Maybe I'm just an optimist but I'm really glad to see that MS is even looking at the Acid3 and SunSpider tests as important metrics.

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by anigbrowl » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:41 PM UTC

I see a (brief) mention of HTML5 compliance; I'm not sure if it's significant that Chrome beta fails many of the tests at http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/html5.htm

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by pierrefar » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:44 PM UTC

I like the effect of competition on Microsoft.

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by rufo » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:44 PM UTC

drcode wrote: post #2

:( still no canvas or svg... jerks.

No mention on if they actually, truly, really support transparent PNGs this time around, either.

(If you think they fixed that in IE7, try setting opacity on a transparent PNG....)

Re: An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

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Post by rbanffy » Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:45 PM UTC

drcode wrote: post #5

rbanffy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least it's almost as fast as the slowest competitor...

Yeah, I love how they say IE is no longer an "outlier." They need to use trickery in the graph so that it's hard to tell that it's still 3x slower than Chrome or Safari.

I am shocked you would expect an honest report from Microsoft, about a very important product during the heavy media coverage of the PDC