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Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nip-and-tuck dept.

safrit writes "Finally the scoop on how IE "cheats" a little to up its performance! Do RFCs mean nothing anymore? What's next, Riots in the streets, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! From the blog story: 'Internet Explorer on Windows always seems either to run impossibly fast (page requests are fulfilled almost before the mouse button has returned to its original unclicked position), or ridiculously slow...' Now read to see why..."

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  1. Lets all complain about MS's lack of standards by MisterFancypants · · Score: 2, Troll
    Yeah, yeah, Microsoft doesn't fully follow standards. Lets all whine about this on a site that doesn't bother to follow any known web standards for display. Geez, aren't we all so very cool?

    If this behavior existed in an OSS app, we'd all be talking about what a cool hack it was...But since it was done by Microsoft is must be evil..Despite the fact that it DOES increase the overall positive user experience, it WORKS and while it might not be 100% standards compliant, it doesn't BREAK things that aren standards compliant. Cry me a river!

  2. Sigh by CaptainSuperBoy · · Score: 2, Troll

    Do you even remember the 'first slashdot troll post' fiasco? When hundreds of slashdot users had their posts permanently set at -1, just for posting in a specific thread? Then the slashdot admins got defensive and blamed the users for being 'offtopic'? Right there is when I stopped respecting this site.

  3. Re:Sounds pretty decent... by Moridineas · · Score: 2, Troll

    Ok, so what IS the impact? What's so terrible about this? That it gives a microsoft browser a speed advantage over a free browser?

  4. Re:MSIE is to blame! by Hott+of+the+World · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when did windows users think that there was anyone else?

    I use Opera, but just for the ads.

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  5. ..offtopic but worth the laugh by eples · · Score: 0, Troll

    ..not to mention the Bush economic "stimulus" package:

    1. Cut taxes on the wealthy
    2. ?
    3. Economy magically rebounds!

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  6. Re:Who cares? by Major+Woody · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jebus christ ... some jackass compares MSIE breaking RFC standards to running stop signs and he gets modded up to insightful? Insightful my ass ... the mods here suck.

  7. I can help with that one..... by earlytime · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Cut taxes on the wealthy
    2. pretend to serve justice to corporate criminals
    2.1 bomb various brown peoples
    2.2 form secret police
    2.3 create all-knowing govt data warehouse
    2.4 detain low wage immigrants
    2.5 slash interest rates
    2.6 wait x years
    3. Economy magically rebounds!

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