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While I can't say I really disbelieve the spirit of the demonstration (past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, but it often ain't a ba

While I can't say I really disbelieve the spirit of the demonstration (past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results, but it often ain't a bad approximation), it'd sure be nice to see more information, especially the source code used. Anybody who's done some web development would have to look at those screenshots and think "all those differences could be due to just one tag/directive that's being interpreted differently by IE9"... and that different interpretation could conceivably even be more in-line with the spec than what the other browsers do (whether that's a "good" thing or not is a different discussion). So, if I had to bet, I wouldn't put my money on Microsoft being the ones in the right here... but I don't like comparing browsers' standards compliance solely based on screenshots.

alttab 16y ago
I was thinking this same thing. Glad I found it posted already. I know this is hogwash because I've made that exact IPhone interface in HTML/CSS3 for IE7, IE8, Webkit Browsers, and FF. Sure, the IE versions didn't have rounded corners or even shadows for that matter but it didn't look retarded. I would guess that the author hasn't been developing cross-browser web applications professionally for any significant length of time. IE does some dumb things with hasLayout and floating, so you generally avoid them. It also wasn't clear that the author knew that Safari and Chrome use the same rendering engine. Even with IE9 and their dumb syntax, its not impossible to learn how to make something look freaking sweet in modern browsers, and passable in IE. This position of course costs businesses thousands of dollars a year running VMs for compatibility. It makes it worse that IE9 doesn't run on XP. The entire post is a little link baity, but I certainly understand the frustration.
- rimantas 16y ago
  I've made that exact IPhone interface in HTML/CSS3 for IE7, IE8, Webkit Browsers, and FF. Sure, the IE versions didn't have rounded corners or even shadows for that matter but it didn't look retarded. So it did not have rounded corners and shadows but it was somehow exact? Interesting. Could you elaborate more, what CSS3 have you got working on IE7, IE8?
  - alttab 16y ago
    Well, it was the same for FF, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. IE 7/8 wasn't exactly the same, just didn't have the shadows or the rounded corners. Still looked good though. Use a little javascript animation between views and getting an app to behave like an iPhone app is extremely easy in HTML/Javascript/CSS.
    - rimantas 16y ago
      IE 7/8 wasn't exactly the same, just didn't have the shadows or the rounded corners. That's exactly the point.

alttab 16y ago

I was thinking this same thing. Glad I found it posted already. I know this is hogwash because I've made that exact IPhone interface in HTML/CSS3 for IE7, IE8, Webkit Browsers, and FF. Sure, the IE versions didn't have rounded corners or even shadows for that matter but it didn't look retarded. I would guess that the author hasn't been developing cross-browser web applications professionally for any significant length of time. IE does some dumb things with hasLayout and floating, so you generally avoid them. It also wasn't clear that the author knew that Safari and Chrome use the same rendering engine. Even with IE9 and their dumb syntax, its not impossible to learn how to make something look freaking sweet in modern browsers, and passable in IE. This position of course costs businesses thousands of dollars a year running VMs for compatibility. It makes it worse that IE9 doesn't run on XP. The entire post is a little link baity, but I certainly understand the frustration.

rimantas 16y ago
I've made that exact IPhone interface in HTML/CSS3 for IE7, IE8, Webkit Browsers, and FF. Sure, the IE versions didn't have rounded corners or even shadows for that matter but it didn't look retarded. So it did not have rounded corners and shadows but it was somehow exact? Interesting. Could you elaborate more, what CSS3 have you got working on IE7, IE8?
- alttab 16y ago
  Well, it was the same for FF, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. IE 7/8 wasn't exactly the same, just didn't have the shadows or the rounded corners. Still looked good though. Use a little javascript animation between views and getting an app to behave like an iPhone app is extremely easy in HTML/Javascript/CSS.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    IE 7/8 wasn't exactly the same, just didn't have the shadows or the rounded corners. That's exactly the point.