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Could Anything Make You Use IE9?
- hendler 17y agoAnswer: Microsoft.
- iuguy 17y agoOnly a forced upgrade from Windows Update or the next version of Windows that I have to get would make me have IE9 installed. I still wouldn't use it though.
- hendler 17y agoAs a developer, I'd still be forced to use it for QA. :(
- andrewheins 17y agoThis seems silly. If the browser was better, I'd use it. And I'd be very happy that the future of the web looked so bright. That said, I don't think it's likely that IE9 will even catch up to today's Chrome, let alone pass it.
- robryan 17y agoProbably right, the long Microsoft release cycles may work for OS's and Office but makes it very hard from them to stay at the cusp of browser technology with the fast moving constantly releasing competition.
- Niten 17y agoAgreed. Neglecting issues of open vs. closed source (for whom that matters), the question boils down to "would you refuse to use an arbitrary program because it's named IE". Of course not.
- steveklabnik 17y agoMy gut level reaction says "sure, I'd use it," but the more I think about it, the more that I remember the whole reason we're in this position is that when Microsoft got ahead, they let the tech lag. If both IE9 and IE10 were both better, then I'd probably give it a shot. I'd be shocked if this were to actually happen.
- robryan 17y agoProblem is for a lot of power users and developers, the people that will be the hardest to convert to using IE, the existing addons for firefox and now chrome would mean that they probably wouldn't bother.
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoI guess if they ported it over to Linux? Otherwise I physically cant :(
- Seth_Kriticos 17y agoYup, won't run on my machine either. Though to be honest, I wouldn't run it even if it would.
- geuis 17y ago1) Would need to run on a Mac 2) Would need to out-perform Chrome, Safari, and Firefox in that order. 3) Would need to have 100% ECMAScript 5 support, 100% CSS3 support, and 100% html5 support. Yeah, these are pretty high standards. I hold my browsers to a higher standard than my women.
- sliverstorm 17y agoAny of the following: a) be superior to chrome and firefox b) be the only browser I could run c) Drugged, hypnotized, bribed, etc
- sliverstorm 17y agoP.S. Microsoft, Chrome is your target now. Not Firefox. And get rid of the flashiness, make it plain... PLEASE
- antipaganda 17y ago++ re: plain. I still think ie5 was the greatest browser Microsoft made, because it was the basic browser that, although it had no bells or whistles, worked on almost EVERY page. If I couldn't see something in Opera or, later, Firefox, I just threw it at ie5 and it worked.
- jbm 17y agoFunny story for you; I have found pages that do not render properly in IE6 that render fine in IE5.5. I wish I could explain it but..
- antipaganda 17y agoExactly. Standard IE is no longer the throw-anything-at-it (and pretty fast as well) browser, unfortunately.
- cmelbye 17y agoWebKit and Mac support. EDIT: Wait, what? Why was my personal opinion voted down?
- danskil 17y agoI would do it for a Klondike bar.
- aphyr 17y agoNo. I run Linux, you insensitive clod! ;) I am still pumped for better standards support, though. Makes everybody's life better. Now if we can only get them to abandon the rendering mode insanity: http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MarcSil_IE8_Document_Mode_2.png http://ieblog.members.winisp.net/images/MarcSil_IE8_Document...
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- ugh 17y agoCould anything lead me to not install Chrome on my parent’s computers but instead leave IE the default? IE8 does that already. It’s good enough. Not worth going through the trouble of getting an alternative for my parents.
- pmiller2 17y agoBut, the question wasn't "would you want your mom to use it." It was "would you use it?" I definitely understand the desire to keep things simple on a system you have to support but don't get to use.
- ugh 17y agoI know, I can read :) I just wanted to suggest that there are ways for IE to “succeed” that have nothing to do with convincing the Hacker News demographic of its superiority.
- jsz0 17y agoI stick with browsers (software in general) until I have a bad experience which prompts me to explore other options. I don't recall what version of IE that was for me (probably 5?) for FireFox it was the dreadful early 2.x releases. Safari hasn't pissed me off yet so I'll probably stick with it. I've been using Chrome, in conjunction with Safari, for the silly reason that I like having two logical groups of web pages under different Dock icons.
- dflock 17y agoTwo parts to this really - will it be better and would you use it if it was? By the look of the current alpha/beta stuff, it's just barely competitive now, on very selective benchmarks. When it comes out it will be competing with Chrome 6 and Firefox 4, probably. It'll be good by Microsoft's previous browser's standards, but not good compared to the competition, I imagine. Will I use it, if it is competitive? Would I use it if it was actually the best browser available? As a Linux user, unlikely. As a web developer, yes, but only in a VM; I hope it runs on a nice lightweight Windows XP VM, although I doubt it will, somehow.
- lukifer 17y agoIf they get on board with HTML5 (including goodies like canvas and WebSockets), we'll talk. In the meantime, I'll stick with future-facing browsers, as a user and as a dev.
- talleyrand 17y agoNo, because it won't run on Linux.
- Semiapies 17y agoI find this silly and hyperbolic. I will use IE 9 because a significant portion of people using web sites I design will use it. I doubt it'll replace Chrome as my preferred browser, but it's not going to hurt me to use.
- i386 17y agoHow could I speculate about using a browser no one outside of Redmond knows very little about just yet?
- 1010011010 17y agoIf it worked on the Mac and on Linux, and it was better than Firefox, sure. I adopted Chrome on those platforms because it's better than the alternatives.
- wedesoft 17y agoI wouldn't want to miss all those Firefox extensions. Especially AdblockPlus and EasyPrivacy. As far as I know Chrome only blocks displaying of ads but not the download. I.e. it cannot support EasyPrivacy at the moment.