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A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the good-vintage-year-for-browsers dept.

Harry writes "I can't remember another time when there were so many Web browsers in prerelease form — 2009 should be a really, really good year for final browser versions. I have posted a quick recap of the state of the upcoming versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." It is nice to see a healthy market of competition driving innovation in a market that has been largely stagnant in recent history. What do other folks see on the scorecard?

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  1. Re:Whom is the better? by ParanoiaBOTS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IE, while it may still lack acid compliance is making progress on the features front and security is supposedly improving.

    So give IE another 5 or so years and they should catch up to where firefox is...today?

  2. Re:Whom is the better? by SleepingWaterBear · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There really aren't any clear winners. Opera has acid compliance in its favor. Firefox is extremely popular, easy to use and has plenty of features.

    IE, while it may still lack acid compliance is making progress on the features front and security is supposedly improving. In the long run, the increase in popularity for alternative browsers will hopefully steer them all towards greater standards compliance leading to a big win for end users and content developers.

    So, to paraphrase, you're saying: There aren't any clear winners, Opera is the best at following web standards, Firefox is popular and feature rich, and IE doesn't suck quite as much as it used to.

    There may be no clear winner, but if this is the best someone can say about IE, it sounds as if there's a clear loser.