pushtheenvelope

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by pushtheenvelope 15y ago
I can't resist this one, can I please have a go? I know you didn't specifically ask for my opinion, but perhaps it gives some food for thought. Forgive me if this is more off-topic than you would like. As someone who joined the IE dev team
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
Microsoft's position seems to be to make their newest OS run the web best. Nothing wrong with that; and they've ensured a vibrant application ecosystem for XP that has led to many browser vendors supporting that OS well. XP users aren't exa
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
To claim that people are being _forced_ to upgrade is a tad extreme. IE9 is using newer APIs to enable better performance and functionality in the default OS browser giving users _one more_ reason to upgrade. What is wrong with Microsoft tr
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
I just tried navigating to crashie8.com on IE9 RC, and while it crashed the tab (and one of the other tabs that shared the same process), nothing happened to the main IE window. The isolation seemed to work alright. Did you try this with th
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
The IE team has made many changes to improve the tab opening and closing speed. These operations are snappy on my machines. Could you confirm that you see this slow behavior in the IE9 RC?
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
Thanks for pointing this one out. I was aware of many similar approaches, but having them expressed so succintly really drove home the point of how to use them and progress through them on a particular 'bug' or project.
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
Let's see, they have Bing and Hotmail which are significant web operations.
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by pushtheenvelope 16y ago
Personally, I much prefer this way. I never noticed it on smaller projects but now I have to work on a large codebase where some functions become hundreds of lines long. Having variable declarations and assignments structured this way makes