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You may not have noticed—why would you have?—but Internet Explorer has actually gotten markedly better! Better enough, anyway, to possibly soften to hardest-hearted internet troublemaker.
And while you’re still probably right to stick with Chrome, kudos to Microsoft for keeping the bar in this video at just the right height: progress is progress, and sucking less is really what we all should strive for. [Verge]
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I thought that was really funny…
me too
seriously i thought, you know what, its been a long time since i last used IE (ie6) and i figured they must have come a long way.
but no, unless a site is really optimised for IE then it just doesn’t handle the css and scripts as good as the others, sometimes fancy jscript galleries and sites just sit there unformatted and dull, where every other browser shows them as the designer intended IE just says fuck you its my way or bollocks to you
Unfortunately this is still true
it is a shame because i was a die hard IE fan as far as ie6
IE9 or IE10?
The latter is latest and greatest, and is actually meant to handle JS better than Webkit browsers in some cases as well as supporting much more CSS3 and HTML5.
Supports much more HTML5?
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/chrome14/safari60/ie10.html
That page compares Chrome 14 (from September 2011) vs the latest versions of Safari and IE.
Chrome 14 wins.
the diference is bigger with the newest version of chrome:
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/chromecanary/ff16/ie10.html
I guess the problem is that Chrome has a very fast release cycle so whenever IE reaches a point of being very good, Chrome just leapfrogs it in a matter of weeks.
I meant more CSS3 and HTML5 in comparison to IE9, which it does by a substantial margin.
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/ie10/ie09.html
I don’t think it’s fair to judge a browser purely on the number of things it does or does not support. I’m pretty sure that for most people speed is more important than supporting Ogg Opus…
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/robohornet-web-browser-performance,3303-3.html
On another note, is it just me or does desktop IE10 feel kind of clunky due to the removal of a lot of animations?
No, it still isn’t
. It is unfortunate. IE is so close to being better than any other browser, but Microsoft still have this daft idea in their head that web pages should be specially formatted for IE
yes i totally agree with this, it doesn’t matter how good IE gets, until they support pages like webkit browsers do, then they will continue to lose ground.
I don’t think that is the issue… The real issue is that standardization! Think of everyone writing some code w/o thinking of implications? IE is not a community driven open source project that doesnt have a time limit nor budget to meet. I guess this explains why things goes slow with IE. But things arent buttery smooth with chrome or others either… I use them all all the time, as chrome hogs memory a lot and tends to suck with flash and js at times bringing my whole computer to halt!
So it is not pinky, IE become a very good browser as of late. But it is still lacking a few bolts to make it simpler thats why i use chrome most of the times, not because it is any better but simpler.
That’s not my point at all. My point is probably the opposite to what you’re saying… I’m saying that the development of IE is actually very good, amazing even. Incidentally Chrome runs both JS and Flash better than IE, so I have no idea what is happening with your computer. Chrome is better. It just is. What I’m saying is, that it’s Microsoft’s own petard that is stopping them at the moment, not the technological capabilities.
That has to do with the popularity of their market share… When you design something that is fully integrated into your own OS (not some public open source project) you take things seriously after a while as with Microsoft! When you add something that compromise the OS, you will be yelled at, and Microsoft is bitter at that front. Constant adding functions that may do certain things in your end is a risky thing. If you look at it from corporate view, you will know. Google on the other end is not building its own OS, rather using a long standing very open public project libraries. Let it run a bit better…
But as I said, you are not constantly doing a lot of use out of a browser during researches i guess probably not 30-40 tabs at once? sometimes java, sometime flash all of sudden crashes, when flash crashes system recover well, but when java crashes, sometimes freezes the whole damn computer, also my pc is not an entry level, and I am an IT technician/engineer, so using windows/osx,ios/linux,android etc different desktop/server/mobile os all the time everyday.
If you think it is very easy to judge, just judge Apple for instant, their browsers has been the biggest culprit of hacking contest and easiest to hack into a pc from…
So when you are corporate and happen to be the largest (not richest?) software company in the world, let it have its own say when it comes to the final frontier to the interwebs that can open/create warmholes/blackholes in your PC!
Love how they use Gizmodo’s quote as the leverage!
Am I the only person who visited karaokewebstandard.org?
“IE 10 bests other browsers on Windows 8 tablets”
Yeah only because Microsoft have banned other browsers from using hardware exeleration on tablets.
…just like Apple on IOS devices with their Nitrous Javascript engine.
It’s like this if a friend of mine takes a sh*t on my bed, no matter how many years he spends not sh*tting on beds, he still isn’t getting back near my bedroom.
Couldn’t have put it any better.
Haha well said.. Also, you have strange friends
Can I come to your bedroom?
Meh, its gotten better over time but the other options are still just as good and haven’t gotten any worse. And unlike IE the others like Chrome, opera and Firefox are all largely platform independent so I can have all my tabs and bookmarks accessible on all my devices.
Unfortunatelly from a web developers perspective IE still sucks :/
It’s funny how the only reason they can come up with to persuade the troll that IE is better than before HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROGRAM ITSELF BEING BETTER, just some made-up standard for an unrelated subject.
Talk about misdirection
Huh, I actually saw no evidence of IE being better in the trailer, all I saw was Microsoft basically giving anyone that has any complaints a big “fuck-you”.
Surely instead of mocking people that live and breathe this stuff (seriously, having to recode shit just for IE is a nightmare and a waste of time), a better advert and PR stunt would be to see what actual complaints people are having, fix them, then show an advert of what they’ve fixed and improved.
It makes no difference how good the latest version of IE is, the damage has been done.
People don’t hate IE for the sake of trolling. They hate it because time after time Microsoft have got the browser wrong, which mean there are a lot of different versions in people’s homes and businesses, all interpreting web pages differently. It’s a complete mess. A lot of the time people have to use whatever version of IE is installed across their company network. In the NHS, for example, there are still a lot of machines running IE6.
You’re living in a dream world if you think people use the latest web browsers and the latest version of each browser is all that matters.
As a UI and Web Designer I spend hours making sure layouts display and function properly no matter what browser is being used, so you have to account for the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately the lowest common denominator is IE6, so it costs me and my colleagues hours developing and testing the web apps to make sure they are compatible Internet Explorer going back to IE6.
So its Microsofts problem that stupid companies are still using their software from over a decade ago?
Not exactly, but large organisations can’t be expected to roll out the latest versions of browsers across their entire network as soon as they become available, as there is mass complexity in doing so.
Companies also run legacy systems which have been tailored (through necessity) to only work in certain older browsers, and so there are dependencies like this to take into account also.
My comment above is born of nothing but years and years of direct experience of working in web design and development, not some unsubstantiated, whimsical comment.