Microsoft to release IE9

Apart from the GPU acceleration, there's not much to get excited about....
 
The vastly improved speed and web standards support are a good thing.
 
Synaesthesia said:
The vastly improved speed and web standards support are a good thing.
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I'd like to see some JavaScript benchmarks, I haven't seen anything on BetaNews.com.

IE9 will be plagued by the same issues as all Microsoft Software, backwards compatibility (ability to host ActiveX for example).

Why the **** we can't standardise on one rendering engine is beyond me.

Edit 1: The Ultimate Guide (of Five Things) for New IE9 users Who Fear Change

Edit 2: It doesn't support XP which means the majority of my customers won't be able to upgrade.
 
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I'm all for moving forward, and welcome IE9 to the interweb. Speed is up in all aspects (report overview), it looks good (read minimalistic), and has caught up in a lot of ways.

It doesn't support XP, but most businesses I know are moving full speed ahead with Windows 7 roll-outs in the next year or so anyway. Progress always wins... eventually. :p

Why can't we standardise on one browser engine? I remember that happening... back when IE6 won the battle. I seem to recall that not being very good for progress in the long run. Nah - if the engines can standardise on the standards, I'm happy to have them all around, competing on performance, efficiency, etc.
 
Raithlin said:
I'm all for moving forward, and welcome IE9 to the interweb. Speed is up in all aspects (report overview), it looks good (read minimalistic), and has caught up in a lot of ways.

It doesn't support XP, but most businesses I know are moving full speed ahead with Windows 7 roll-outs in the next year or so anyway. Progress always wins... eventually. :p

Why can't we standardise on one browser engine? I remember that happening... back when IE6 won the battle. I seem to recall that not being very good for progress in the long run. Nah - if the engines can standardise on the standards, I'm happy to have them all around, competing on performance, efficiency, etc.
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Im with you. Im very excited about Microsoft these days, IE9, WinMo 7 (mixed reactions but i love it, its also minimal but cool)
 
CrazYmonkeY159 said:
Im with you. Im very excited about Microsoft these days, IE9, WinMo 7 (mixed reactions but i love it, its also minimal but cool)
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Have you tried the new Live betas? Mail, Writer, Photo, Movie Maker... all very nice, smooth, easy to use. Microsoft is not out of the woods yet, but they are certainly moving in the right direction.
 
dabbler said:
Some major problems with IE9 still, like the Afrihost webpage (headings backwards :) )

http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php/photo/18485/title/afrihost-9beta/cat/500

... and trying to login to this site (login area covered by an ad) ;)
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You'll probably find that the Afrihost site is picking up IE9's user agent as IE7/8, and is serving up special markup for those browsers. Because IE9 is supposedly more web compliant, it's now showing incorrectly.

/aside
Wow did I just defend IE :sick:
 
I still want to know why Microsoft choose to forego screen real estate. In IE9 beta, there is this big empty space at the top, which could have been used to put the tabs in.

Why are they so bloody stupid? Maybe they should download Google Chrome and see how it's done.
 
I still want to know why Microsoft choose to forego screen real estate. In IE9 beta, there is this big empty space at the top, which could have been used to put the tabs in.

Why are they so bloody stupid? Maybe they should download Google Chrome and see how it's done.
 
kingrob said:
I still want to know why Microsoft choose to forego screen real estate. In IE9 beta, there is this big empty space at the top, which could have been used to put the tabs in.

Why are they so bloody stupid? Maybe they should download Google Chrome and see how it's done.
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I still haven't figured out how the hell Chrome managed to do that (put the tabs in line with the control box).

There's nothing obvious in about:credits as to what library they used for the windowing system apart from WTL 8.0.
 
dequadin said:
I still haven't figured out how the hell Chrome managed to do that (put the tabs in line with the control box).

There's nothing obvious in about:credits as to what library they used for the windowing system apart from WTL 8.0.
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Well, Firefox 4's custom "Menu" button is also in line with the control box... But on the IE9 side, I must say that I'm pleasantly surprised with the public beta. Our software really seems so like IE9 and feels like it caught a new breath in IE9's new rendering engine. Being standards compliant is also a good thing, so I'm glad to see the direction Microsoft is moving in. Good things from Microsoft recently (and in the near future):
  • Windows 7
  • Internet Explorer 9
  • The "Live" suite of software
  • Windows Phone 7 (even though I recently converted to Android, I'd love to see what WP7 is like in every-day use)

I say roll on more future products from Microsoft!
 
Who the F**K cares! MS are screwing up everything they touch. It's called the 'Midas Touch': it may seem great to start with but ends up sh*te.
 
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