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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
by drcode 17y ago
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.
- rbanffy 17y agoI am shocked you would expect an honest report from Microsoft, about a very important product during the heavy media coverage of the PDC
- mdemare 17y agoThey did show how IE8 is orders of magnitude slower than its competitors - that display of honesty shocked me a little.
- neilk 17y agoThey admit the flaws when the next version is about to come out. Standard operating procedure for marketing.
- rbanffy 17y agoThat's the only reason we have to imagine IE9 will be released soon. Had it been a "minor improvement" over IE8 and were it aimed squarely as a competitor to Chrome or Firefox, I would doubt it would ever launch. Just preventing companies from rewriting internal web apps to be more cross-browser-friendly would be sufficient accomplishment.
- billybob 17y agoI'm looking for the trickery, and I haven't spotted it yet. Can you elaborate?
- unfletch 17y agoI think he's speaking of y-axis' scale. Using such a large scale and including older versions of IE makes IE 9 look downright fast. If you plotted just the rightmost cluster (IE 9, FF 3.6, WebKit nightly) on its own graph with a scale that went from 0 to, say, 1500 instead of 16000, it would be very clear that IE 9 is still slow compared to it's peers -- nearly 3x slower than WebKit as noted by the earlier comment. It's quite an improvement, but here's hoping they keep optimizing.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoAlso, Firefox already gets snippy with Webkit because they bail on dealing with difficult corner cases (the page showing the HTML5 spec itself being a recent example), then trumpet how fast they are. Let's see how fast IE9 is when it actually supports the standards properly.