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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.
by dschobel 17y ago
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.
- notauser 17y agoIf only we weren't going to have to live with IE6 until 2020. Then we might be able to use more of the new stuff. (Apologies for bitterness, I spent a lot of today back porting a Very Large Web App to IE6.)
- billybob 17y agoMe too. Not that they have much choice. Even the non-geeks in my office have noticed that they can work faster with Firefox. As more things move to the web, built on web standards, they can't afford to continue having the worst browser by far.
- cracell 17y agoTo be far. IE8 is vastly better then IE7 and IE6 but Microsoft is not aggressive about getting it's users to upgrade. Whereas Firefox, Safari and especially Chrome are.
- mpk 17y agoMicrosoft's efforts towards (de facto or de jure) standards compliance are dismal. I've been working on a client-side app since before IE7 came out. The much hyped IE7 release gave us some performance benefits, but apart from that it just added another IE release that had to be tested and tested. IE8 made things even worse. We now have scenarios that work fine in all recent (going back 1 to 3 major versions, you know, everything over the last few years) of Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but IE? Hahaha, you must be joking. It works in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7. Or just in IE8, or in IE6 and IE8, but not IE7... And now they're threatening to unleash yet another IE version. Why couldn't they just stick with IE8 for the time being and fix things there? (And don't tell me 'the version number is just marketing', we all know that major releases entail lots and lots of changes and 'fixing things we messed up before').