geektechnica.com— Microsoft recently started IE8 mythbusting on their IE8 ‘Get The Facts’ campaign. But lets take a closer look at them:
Jun 18, 2009View in Crawl 4
Microsoft's probably basing a lot of their claim on W3C standard compatibility on the fact that IE8 (finally) passes the Acid 2 test... A year after Firefox 3.0 did it (over two years if we're talking about developer builds), three years after Opera did it, and FOUR years since a Safari 2.0.2 did it.Of course, now we have the Acid 3 test and even my mobile browser is scoring in the 90s, while IE8 is a pitiful 20%.Like with Windows, a lot of development is stunted with legacy support and Microsoft's insane desire to have proprietary EVERYTHING. If MS had their way, every web server would be running on Windows Server, using IIS, deploying ASP.NET, and using IE-only code. Ultimate control over your computer and the web. f**k that. The web NEEDS open and free standards.The IE team's #1 focus should be an entirely new rendering engine. One that passes the Acid3 test (and whatever test comes after that) and isn't f**king slow. It should also be open source, like Gecko and Webkit, so people can pick it apart and actually make it secure.
I wonder what happens to that genius PR guy when the advertising attempt creates hundreds of thousands of combined negative comments from people otherwise won't even bother speaking about your product.He gets fired? I don't think so since MS is always doing this s**t, remember the Linux get the facts which created amazing PR for Linux.
3.11 owns 3.1 I have a dedicated phone/fax receiver/sender on my network that I built on 3.11 when it was current. It handles voicemail for 20 people, prints incoming faxes to the tcpip printer (and keeps years of fax history) and lets anyone on the net send faxes from their desk (as a printer). In all that time it has not yet failed in any way. I have started to build a new machine to replace it a couple of times but the fact that it hasn't needed to be rebooted in the last three or four years keeps stopping me.
yeah- I'm a working designer- and my clients come back... and I can deal with more than one browser AKA "do my job." Ciao. Enjoy all that unpaid adherence to standards in a world full of users who couldn't give two s**ts...
zippoJun 19, 2009
Microsoft's probably basing a lot of their claim on W3C standard compatibility on the fact that IE8 (finally) passes the Acid 2 test... A year after Firefox 3.0 did it (over two years if we're talking about developer builds), three years after Opera did it, and FOUR years since a Safari 2.0.2 did it.Of course, now we have the Acid 3 test and even my mobile browser is scoring in the 90s, while IE8 is a pitiful 20%.Like with Windows, a lot of development is stunted with legacy support and Microsoft's insane desire to have proprietary EVERYTHING. If MS had their way, every web server would be running on Windows Server, using IIS, deploying ASP.NET, and using IE-only code. Ultimate control over your computer and the web. f**k that. The web NEEDS open and free standards.The IE team's #1 focus should be an entirely new rendering engine. One that passes the Acid3 test (and whatever test comes after that) and isn't f**king slow. It should also be open source, like Gecko and Webkit, so people can pick it apart and actually make it secure.
ilgazJun 20, 2009
I wonder what happens to that genius PR guy when the advertising attempt creates hundreds of thousands of combined negative comments from people otherwise won't even bother speaking about your product.He gets fired? I don't think so since MS is always doing this s**t, remember the Linux get the facts which created amazing PR for Linux.
Closed AccountJun 20, 2009
addons
captobliviousJun 20, 2009
3.11 owns 3.1 I have a dedicated phone/fax receiver/sender on my network that I built on 3.11 when it was current. It handles voicemail for 20 people, prints incoming faxes to the tcpip printer (and keeps years of fax history) and lets anyone on the net send faxes from their desk (as a printer). In all that time it has not yet failed in any way. I have started to build a new machine to replace it a couple of times but the fact that it hasn't needed to be rebooted in the last three or four years keeps stopping me.
xevidentxJun 21, 2009
get a life guys, you guys are acting like this is a huge issue like global warming or abortion
nishnabotnaJun 22, 2009
Huh, I'm pretty sure that's the first time a star wars quote got dug down :p
pnunnJun 23, 2009
yeah- I'm a working designer- and my clients come back... and I can deal with more than one browser AKA "do my job." Ciao. Enjoy all that unpaid adherence to standards in a world full of users who couldn't give two s**ts...
Closed AccountJun 30, 2009
What's with the fanboi-ism dig1x? leave Microsoft alone?
angdemJul 7, 2009
Windows XP is better than Vista in performance; and performance matters most.