computerworld.com — Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.
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chewie67Nov 19, 2009
What they neglected to say was what they were testing:A javascript routine that calls an ActiveX object that steals your private information then spawns a million pop-ups.On that test, IE came in 1st.
leodavinci0Nov 19, 2009
I'm still using IE 6.5 because it is on my (locked down) work computer, and the governement didn't upgrade to IE 7 because of security issues. IE 8 is still in testing, last we heard. The use of Firefox Portable is specifically prohibited btw.
mikeytagNov 19, 2009
It's not too bad seeing as how my code already looks like this:div {padding-left: 10px;_padding-left: 3px;*padding-left: 2px;margin: 2px;margin: 0px !important!;_margin: 5px !important;}What's one more permutation really?/s
markstoryNov 19, 2009
Why would XP see IE9, its only an 8 year old operating system that is now 2 full versions out of date. Even though XP still has the largest installed user base I don't think a software company wants to create new code to run on an 8year old OS that has been far eclipsed by newer releases.
babyb0yNov 20, 2009
Safari speed is still not the best these day. Safari 4 is released with crashy and useless feature ( to some people ) . Mac is gorgeous , I must admit and they want to make Safari gorgeous too, safari 4 looks cool but what, it's not what we want now :) We want simple and speed, that's what google bring us.Safari don't intend to have extension, yes, cause they want the simple. It's OK . I use FF and I don't use much extension. Maybe they want to have their way to rule the web browser .You know why they don't talk much about safari . It's Chrome time, they talk and switch to Chrome all day. IE, it's the long story of MS =))
vulguspecumNov 20, 2009
You could use a library to achieve that though. Prototype and jQuery both offer structures like Enumerable (usually mixed in the Array class) and methods like collect, invoke, findAll, each, etc.But you're totally right when you say that they need to be both fast and up to date with the last installments of ECMAScript.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2009
Google is the new real menace. All Microsoft really has to do is come out with a IE browser that ask the user for permission to block ads by default (opt-in) and by blocking all ads (including on bing) Google can't crybaby to the FCC about foul-play again.IE still has the majority market share, so MS should hit google where it hurts the most : advertising. As it stands, bing is really just a loss leader for microsoft, but the ads on google and its content networks are for Google the bloodline of the company.. If IE had something like an adblocker extension installed and turned on by default no one will miss the ads and we'll all welcome the gained real estate, and Google can go f themselves.