The IT gravy train has become seriously derailed
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Microsoft claims IE 9 will be super speedy
FAST BECOMING the IBM of the Internet browser world, Microsoft has been trying to show that its next version of Internet explorer will be more exciting than Scarlet Johansen knocking on your door wearing only a coat and carrying a bottle of chocolate sauce.
Yesterday the Vole was showing off its early work on Internet Exploder 9, which it says will go like the clappers and have new features and new standards.
Stephen Sinofsky, president of the newly renamed Windows and Windows Live division, said he was interested in new standards like HTML 5.
He admitted that Internet Exploder is a long way behind on the current ACID test, a test designed to expose browser flaws, and that he wants IE 9 to improve its score.
The Vole has only been working on IE9 for about three weeks, so an actual release is not expected in the near future. But the new browser has already moved from a score of 20 to 32 on the Acid 2 test.
Other new features on display included hardware acceleration using Direct Write and Direct 2D for text support.
Apparently this will improve fonts and performance of text animation without requiring changes to the sites themselves.
The IE9 prototype managed to show Bing Maps displaying a map at about 13 to 14 frames per second, however with the hardware acceleration switched on it managed 60 frames per second. µ
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At least when internet exploder explodes it will now be pretty. Then I can go use my open sauce which is my favorite thing int he world coz im super biased, since i read this site which is obviously run by a bunch of linux spies.
FF is slowly creeping up to 94 with the 3.6 release up from 93 of 3.5.
Safari 4 has been a 100 scoring browser since release, months and months ago.
Google Chrome has a linktest failure, even though it passes with 100.
And the recently released Opera 10 scores 100 without errors.
So, in perspective, 35 is rubbish, and they'll have to do bloody lot better than that.
Um, they are proud to have 35 points in acid2? Firefox get's 100%. Unless it's a typo and they ment Acid3. Even still IE fails at Acid2 and 3 lol.
"@John
Have you heard of tampons? Seriously dude, your girl parts are showing. Posted by : James, 20"
Yea James you aren't supposed to put those things on your head
Have you heard of tampons? Seriously dude, your girl parts are showing.
What new standards, the ones that are not ISO approved, only MS approved to screw with everything but MS blessed apps.
And for speed, Ban Flash, it's a bloated advertisement platform not needed by anyone except the advertisement hacks.
"I don't have to!
I'm not going to try and argue about that as whether or not the Inq mocks Linux posted by : Davey K, 20"
IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT BECAUSE IT PROVES MY POINT THAT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IT COMPLETE AND UTTER RUBBISH. YOU CAN'T SAY WHAT YOU HAVE WHILE THEY WONT SAY A BAD WORD ABOUT THE MIGHTY BINUX, GROW UP.
TO TRY AND KEEP DEFENDING ATTACKS ON MICROSOFT AND APPLE WHILE IGNORING THE NON EXISTANT ATTACKS ON BINUX IS PATHETIC TO SAY THE LEAST
I'm not going to try and argue about that as whether or not the Inq mocks Linux has sod all to do with this particular article. And my argument is about this one article.
You threw your toys out of the pram over one term - "Internet Exploder" and complained about how the Inq mocks IE and how biased and none-neutral it was as a result of this term.
My point is that they use silly terms like this for *loads* of companies and products. It's a simple humorous term and does not make an article biased and anti-IE. Just like referring to Linux as "Open Sauce" and Firefox as "Mozzarella Firebadger" doesn't make the Inq anti-Linux and anti-Firefox either.
If you can't look at terms like "Internet Exploder" without throwing a hissy fit and neutrality and the likes, The Inq is not the news site for you.
"The Inq refers to loads of companies and products by using humorous terms for them. posted by : Davey K"
Instead of carrying on like an idiot why don't you show everyone where they've mocked the mighty Linux then!, once you've failed perhaps you and the rest of the appeasers can STFU
What about the speed of the next version of Safari usign Apple VideoBoost technology? They are claiming speed on bing maps of about 100 fps.
This would be the same Linux which is always referred to as Open Sauce I take it?
The Inq refers to loads of companies and products by using humorous terms for them. If you really are so biased and boring that you cannot comprehend that fact without throwing a hissy fit, I suggest you go and read a more serious and dull news site instead of just moaning.
I wonder how long MS will go on producing a poor Closed Sauce browser?
It must cost them millions to keep it floating while the majority of users switched to FF already and more developers then MS can ever hire work on that project for free, as well as produce better software.
Beware, before MS, Atari, Commodore, Apple etc, all software WAS open sauce and funny enough we still use most of it!
As the code gets more complicated, the only one around will be Open Sauce.
Just look at the bugs W7 has, it's incredible incompatible with older software or .NET apps.
So they build VirtualPC in it!! LOL
IE8 is not 100% web standards compatible, we still have to code a safari, firefox and every other browser standards compliant site then code 3 separate broken versions to work on ie6, ie7 and ie8 though ie8 is no where near as bad as the other two.
And compatibility mode means running the website in ie7 mode, which is bad.
What I want is for it to work. I'm getting tired of I.E. 8 incompatibilities, EVEN WHEN IT'S IN compatibility mode it fails.
I 1/2 blame MS on that and 1/2 on lazy web developers. I.E. 8 is 100% web standard compatible, yet so many web sites don't work with it? WTF?!?!?!
You claim that they've only been working on it for 3 weeks but they already have a running copy with graphics acceleration? WTF? That's impossible. And it uses Direct 2D? Do you mean "DirectDraw" which has been obsolete for years and even MS tells you to use Direct3d even for 2d work. Wouldn't it be more likely that IE9 is based on WPF since WPF is based 3d from the ground up?
And which Major Software Corporation do you happen to work for?
They had better bring back the inline autocomplete and not *remove* other features like they did from 7 to 8. IE 7 and below's inline autocomplete was one of the few reasons I continue to even use the damn browser over the competition (the other being the superior session splitting when creating a new window). Speed I could not care less about as it rarely makes a noticeable difference.
The mark of a stupid software company is when they *remove* functionality from a product in revisions (I'm looking at you Microsoft). So don't screw this up Microsoft.
... would be in start-up. Obviously I don't use IE day to day (SRWare Iron for me, ta), but on the odd occasion I need to use it for compatibility testing, reproducing client problems etc, it would be nice if you could actually browse as soon as the window's up, rather than about 30 seconds later by which time it's blanked the address bar several times and generally lulled you into a false sense it's actually ready.
I'll consider it :)
Oh grow up.
"MSloppy had EIGHT FRIGGING CHANCES to get this Browser business right??"
Yes, and between the 4th and 6th attempts they managed to rack up a 95% market share.
If that's your idea of getting business wrong, no wonder Bill Gates is worth billions and you're not.
is in the Scarlet Johansson reference
Not only that, I have 8GB of RAM with Windows 7 64-bits, and after surfing the web for a while, I close all unused tabs except one, and the browser would consume up to 400MB of RAM for only one tab, ridiculous!! Plus after closing the IE, two or three instances of IE would keep running in the background, odd.
Yup, and they'll finally launch it and every geek and fat hacker dude living in his grandparents basement, will be just waiting to find any little vulnerability to exploit to make it look bad and to make a name for himself in the little "hacker world"...pathetic...
"You guys are aware that the Inq is a light hearted news site aren't you?
posted by : Davey K"
And yet they NEVER mock the almighty Linux which can't be given away
What about lowering the memory requirements for the lower end user who dosn't have a huge memory full PC. There's people who have a low end computer and will glady update to IE9 because the latter worked and they are used to it.
I mean I use IE because it works simple and I can't be bothered with the other stuff I am secure and I use very good security software.
But IE8 takes 80mb per tab plus the 20mb which is the recovery feature in memory. And it does rise sometimes IE will not close properly as I have noticed the service still running with no IE windows open and thats about 100mb in usage.
.... still debating about effing browser, when you could have had about Scarlett Johannson and hot chocolate! I wouldn't mind Demi Moore either, but that's MHO.
Anyways, any decent looking girl (with or withouth chocolate) should beat any browser..... you young morons!
Not true, IE 7 + 8 / Firefox x.y / Opera x.y / Chrome x.y / Safari x.y are all available to XP users, still there are users and corporations that insist on using IE6. Deprecating XP is way more efficient in getting the adoption rates up. Especially since Windows 7 has a better windows update system then XP, and gives you the choice about which browsers to use (at least that is what it should do in Europe to please EU).
Additionally the advance Direct X stuff they do in IE9 is not available in XP, and as a develoepr I fully understand that they take advantage of new stuff that has been around for 3 years in a browser that is 1 - 1.5 years away to reach stable(educated guess based on IE 8 beta progress).
Why do people like you even comment, that is so insanely dumb I have to sit down and try not to worry about the future of our civilization (which would be better of without my sarcasm of course, but hey, that way more fun :P ).
1. There are more versions then 9 (5.5++)
2. Mozilla has had at least as many versions if you also count the mozilla suite versions. Not to think of also including the prior Netscape versions the code is based on (check wikipedia if you don't believe me)
3. The web is a moving target
4. People have different taste, there is really not possible to get something like software for the whole world 100% right for everyone.
5. You caps-lock use make you look even more stupid
6. If you don't know shit about the net and the web, don't comment on it. Keep your opinions to the things you know by hearth..
If they put out IE9 for Windows 2000 and XP the internet would not have to suffer with IE6. That is of course assuming they will truly make IE9 into a standards compliant browser like everyone else.
If only they'd spent an extra three weeks on IE8 to bring its Acid score from 20 to 32...
It should be Acid 3 test and not Acid 2, same mistake as some other news sites did..
Oh, and I don't really believe the claim about only been working on it for some weeks. The Jscript tema has probably worked for the last year at least, since they delivered JScript 5.8 to the IE team.
Same is probably also true for most of the other underlying components, probably including the new Direct 2d graphic back end.
Other then that, good to see the web moves forward. And funny to read all the idiotic comments on the ieblog post that moans about this not being made for XP as well.. Move on suckers!! :)
Hm-m-m-m...Let's see, if this is IE 9 they are working on...is it my imagination, or hasn't MSloppy had EIGHT FRIGGING CHANCES to get this Browser business right?? It still boggles my mind that MS has gotten their heads handed to them as far as Browser quality goes by companies WHO DON'T EVEN OWN THE OPERATING SYSTEM...Sorry, but wasn't IE EIGHT supposed to save the Internet world?
... Scarlet Johansen and the chocolate sauce instead of IE9?
Rob
"....and have new features and new standards."
These just hope that these standards are actually open standards and not IE only, which held back the internet for years.
You clearly don't understand what the Inq is about if you still don't get the special terminology they use.
You guys are aware that the Inq is a light hearted news site aren't you? Hence why IE is referred to as Internet Exploder, Firefox gets the Firebadger treatment and so on.
Just using a silly name for something doesn't automatically make the Inq anti-IE or anything you know!
Just be careful now when climbing down from your high horse...
Nah John it's just this guy Nick he is a terrible writer and has never written a respectable nor balanced article.
"He admitted that Internet Exploder"
As usual a very neutral article from The Inquirer. You wouldn't even think about saying a bad word about your precious Linux which incidentally you can't give away!