techradar.com— Microsoft showed Internet Explorer 9 for the first time yesterday at its Professional Developer Conference, but a technical preview won't be available before next year (perhaps at CES 2010 in January).
Nov 19, 2009View in Crawl 4
Internet Explorer 9 will be the first browser that uses GPU acceleration. This is HUGE guys. Yet they get no credit because it's the cool thing to hate internet explorer.
Macslut- that doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. How many sites, on average, use SVG? None. The not-yet-ratified CSS3? None. ACID3 has *no* relevance to the time it takes to make an actual web site.
I don't know what they mean by "widely used".By that term, a bug in whichever browser has the most market share is the most widely used too. I suppose that if it gets exploited on most of the browsers, that makes the bug "very popular".Sorry, but IE is not a "standard". It is a product. One that is constantly changing, often incompatible with different versions of itself more so than is typical, and constantly far behind standards.
Safari has had 100/100 since July 2009 - almost half a year ago and counting. Safari 4 is very fast now. When Apple has a performance bottleneck in their OS, they fix it.They have a good architecture and implementation details are hidden behind interfaces. That is how they can make internal changes without breaking everything. That is probably how they were able to get iTunes and Safari up so quickly on Windows, and how they release new versions on both operating systems at once.Microsoft was not able to do that during the brief period they had a version of IE on Macintosh. They do not seem to be able to do it with Microsoft Office for Mac & Windows either. They do not separate Interface from Implementation as well as Apple, so things like portability and internal implementation optimization are precluded pretty often.If they had good architecture in their OS & APIs, they would not have to rewrite IE to use DirectX! Anybody else picking up on that?
Apple and Mozilla put Safari and Firefox on millions of MS-Windows PCs per year for free. Allowing them to preinstall would save them a small fortune in initial download costsFirefox, especially, because their browser downloads just the necessary changes from one point-release to the next - not the whole browser applications.The only problem is that many software companies have gotten themselves and Microsoft abused when they tried to collaborate with Microsoft on something. So that might make the effort and trusting Microsoft worth it. Sounds sad but look at all the cases and events where partnering with Microsoft has gone very sour for the partner.
obkenobiNov 20, 2009
LOL Microsoft
mweatherNov 20, 2009
Cool, what website can I download those from? Wait a second...
darknightsNov 20, 2009
Internet Explorer 9 will be the first browser that uses GPU acceleration. This is HUGE guys. Yet they get no credit because it's the cool thing to hate internet explorer.
chocksterNov 21, 2009
Macslut- that doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. How many sites, on average, use SVG? None. The not-yet-ratified CSS3? None. ACID3 has *no* relevance to the time it takes to make an actual web site.
johnnysoftwareDec 8, 2009
I don't know what they mean by "widely used".By that term, a bug in whichever browser has the most market share is the most widely used too. I suppose that if it gets exploited on most of the browsers, that makes the bug "very popular".Sorry, but IE is not a "standard". It is a product. One that is constantly changing, often incompatible with different versions of itself more so than is typical, and constantly far behind standards.
johnnysoftwareDec 8, 2009
Safari has had 100/100 since July 2009 - almost half a year ago and counting. Safari 4 is very fast now. When Apple has a performance bottleneck in their OS, they fix it.They have a good architecture and implementation details are hidden behind interfaces. That is how they can make internal changes without breaking everything. That is probably how they were able to get iTunes and Safari up so quickly on Windows, and how they release new versions on both operating systems at once.Microsoft was not able to do that during the brief period they had a version of IE on Macintosh. They do not seem to be able to do it with Microsoft Office for Mac & Windows either. They do not separate Interface from Implementation as well as Apple, so things like portability and internal implementation optimization are precluded pretty often.If they had good architecture in their OS & APIs, they would not have to rewrite IE to use DirectX! Anybody else picking up on that?
johnnysoftwareDec 8, 2009
What is the point of using a preview of a future performance enhancement?Just look at a demo video of it that is time-coded.
johnnysoftwareDec 8, 2009
Apple and Mozilla put Safari and Firefox on millions of MS-Windows PCs per year for free. Allowing them to preinstall would save them a small fortune in initial download costsFirefox, especially, because their browser downloads just the necessary changes from one point-release to the next - not the whole browser applications.The only problem is that many software companies have gotten themselves and Microsoft abused when they tried to collaborate with Microsoft on something. So that might make the effort and trusting Microsoft worth it. Sounds sad but look at all the cases and events where partnering with Microsoft has gone very sour for the partner.