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Microsoft claims that Google will benefit from IE9
SOFTWARE COBBLER Microsoft has been telling the Kiwi press that the number one beneficiary of its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 will be Google.
Top IE Vole Pete LePage, who spoke with the Dominion-Evening Post during his first visit to New Zealand, said that Google could be one of the companies that will benefit most from future improvements in the next version of Internet Exploder, IE9.
IE9 will for the first time use computers' graphics processors - usually used by computer games - to render website graphics on screen. Hardware graphics acceleration is going to make websites easier to read, and make it easier for users to see images and scroll through then, LePage said.
However it is going to be users of Google's software who notice the difference. Online mapping services, such as Google Maps, that can be clunky to navigate, will be a lot smoother.
He also said that one of the biggest problems for the next generation of web browsers is the 1,000-page specification for the webpage markup language HTML 5, which might be interpreted differently by competing web browser developers and that could result in problems for website owners. µ
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@Jameson Taylor: Chrome is just as bad as any version of IE. Why the hell would anyone want to switch to that?
Never mind you are forced to install Googleupdater etc, last I heard Chrome recorded more information from you than if you just use Google search by itself.
People like you hate Microsoft forcing things upon you, yet you wouldn't complain when Google does it with all their software now.
Can you even get an ad-blocker in Chrome? Can you block Google's own text ads in Chrome?
Firefox is better than _everything_ else. _everything_.
What a load of crap. IE9 will almost certainly default to use Bing as a search engine (except possibly in the EU).
As well, LePage's comment about "might be interpreted differently....could result in problems" between HTML5 implementation means the same-ol' thing is on the horizon. IE9 will be the new IE6 (which was specifically designed be incompatible with the HTML specification, in orderto force users to use only it to access Microsoft-designed websites and programs like Outlook Web access). I hope the EU sues their ass.
BTW, did anyone watch the 2010 Winter Olympics online? Did you enjoy being forced to install Microsoft Silverlight on your machine? Did you try an install the open-source "Moonlight" plugin that Microsoft "cooperatively" donated to open source? Did you notice that only the Microsoft-controlled Silverlight would authenticate with the webserver and play the media?
On a similar topic, have you tried to open a Office 2007 document in Office 2003? Have you tried opening/saving ODF in Office 2003/2007, and looked at the result in a suite that handles ODF properly, like OpenOffice? THATS why Microsoft should not be allowed to have any input into setting standards (even if they bribe ISO delegates...oh wait, they already did that with "OOXML"...).
This Microsoft comment about HTML5 is really funny. A detailed spec is a burden to browser implementers like Microsoft, but is a huge win for users and web developers.
Well I heard that Windows Vista and above were supposed to hardware-accelerate everything on the screen. Videos were also played by the GPU for ages.
What else is still not taking advantage of those ultra expensive video boards? Will they make us buy HTML cards now?
Well at least in Ubuntu+Firefox the sites react and scroll fluidly enough for me.
Unless they cary a bit of some stupid childish Flash animation around, that is. Oh boy how I hate those things.
doctype defines html & utf8 defines webpage transmitable thru address. so all ,get default background & type & funny statement. Wow.
Now about making 64 bit IE9 usable with all movies & stuff, YES. hope So.TV2GO,O.K.
If HTML5 makes graphics chip work, GOOD.
First, What took so damn long I say? Second, I say oh please regarding google's apps. Google maps has been by far the first map engine I came across that was not clunky or slow; he needs to get a better net connection. Maybe the competition has improved theirs but that is the main reason I went with google and have not really looked at anyone else.
"He also said that one of the biggest problems for the next generation of web browsers is the 1,000-page specification for the webpage markup language HTML 5, which might be interpreted differently by competing web browser developers and that could result in problems for website owners."
Oh my! The whole point of HTML5 -- to my knowledge -- has been to make the specs and syntax simpler. Now if IE manages to botch this one up, we won't have working HTML5 web experience even by 2020.
Examples of simplifications:
Doctype: [!DOCTYPE html]
Choosing charset: [meta charset="utf-8"]
Or like omitting tags: [!DOCTYPE html][title]Small HTML 5[/title][p]Hello world[/p]
Above is valid HTML page, validated by w3c validator it omits html, body, and head tags. Note that [] should be replaced < (I'm not sure sure this comment program can handle these chars)
Google will definitely benefit from IE9.
When IE9 is released, and even more people come to hate IE, more of them will switch to Chrome - and that's always good news for Goog.