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IE is certainly making good progress lately. If IE is making progress in usability, I don't really see it. I typically use Chrome for three reasons: 1. It's
by 300bps 13y ago
IE is certainly making good progress lately.
If IE is making progress in usability, I don't really see it. I typically use Chrome for three reasons:
1. It's fast
2. It has better plugin support (i.e. Adblock)
3. It doesn't have random freezes
Just today I thought I'd give IE 11 another try on my Windows 8.1 system. It wasn't long before I started experiencing weird random freezes that I literally never get in Chrome. Anyone reading my comment history will show that I use a lot of Microsoft technologies (Visual Studio, Windows Phone, etc) but I am frequently left wondering what the heck Microsoft is doing with IE because it's not working.
- pcwalton 13y agoIE's compositing and rendering are far ahead of Chrome, honestly. Direct2D and DirectWrite are really really good at using the GPU to render content, and the D3D-based compositing is really good. Microsoft is very good at graphics (and it helps that they control the whole stack of course).
- mayhew 13y agoIf there's one thing I was really impressed with when trying out Windows 8 and whatever version of IE it came with, it's the hardware acceleration when scrolling. I've never seen such smooth scrolling before, ever.
- amaks 13y agoThe fact here is that IE is only available on Windows, whereas Chrome and Safari support all platforms. The common denominator for them is OpenGL. BTW, is OpenGL inherently inferior to DirectX?
- Metrop0218 13y agoIE has Adblock Plus.... https://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer https://adblockplus.org/en/internet-explorer