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Microsoft Aims To Close Performance Gap With Internet Explorer 9
Barence writes "Microsoft has unveiled the first details of Internet Explorer 9, promising that it will close the performance gap on rival browsers. The major newcomer is a revamped rendering engine that will tap the power of the PC's graphics card to accelerate text and graphics performance. 'We're changing IE to use the DirectX family of Windows APIs to enable many advances for web developers,' explains Internet Explorer's general manager, Dean Hachamovitch. As well as improving performance, Microsoft claims the hardware acceleration will enhance the appearance and readability of fonts on the web, with sub-pixel positioning that eradicates the jagged edges on large typefaces."
Microsoft claims the hardware acceleration will enhance the appearance and readability of fonts on the web, with sub-pixel positioning that eradicates the jagged edges on large typefaces
Anyone else get the feeling Dean hasn't really been keeping up with recent developments? If that's IE's general manager, it explains much.
...users will finally be able to browse the Crysis website with acceptable framerates.
Because it's more efficiently coded.
Now it will incorrectly render my pages twice as fast!
Seriously, IE has become a verb with me and my web developer friends. We even use it in general conversation: "That guy cut me off and I told him to go IE himself."
The ACID conformance is still at a dismal 30% compared to 90% of chrome, Safari and Opera.
The internet willstill be divided into 2 - the Microsoft world and the Real, Normal world.
Shame, really. So many years, and the leopard has yet to change its spots.
So buy a snow leopard instead....
Uh... you're in the wrong place. This is where we bitch about IE, not Firefox.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
For IE to be successful, they need to port it to a proper operating system.
Spell check is not a luxury, its a necessity
For those who can't spell.
IE also has a lot of add ons. Browse the web with it for a while and you will effortlessly collect lots of them.
Because the real world is a line from (-INF,0) to (+INF,0). The imaginary world is the entire complex plane EXCEPT that line where y=0i.
Because given a bounded area containing a road and a chicken, according to Brownian motion the probability of the chicken crossing the road rises to exactly 1.
"Be prepared, son. That's my motto. Be prepared." --Joe Hallenbeck
What the hell is with the dude who modded everything in this thread 'troll'?
It's amusingly ironic that your next line states:
I used to metamod like crazy. The new system makes no sense, and I refuse to continue.
So, effectively, you don't like the moderation, but you aren't willing to do anything.
Or does making comments about moderation count as metamoderation now? (And, if so, does making comments about the comments about moderation count as meta-metamoderation?)
(I'd post this under my own name, but I have to be AC or I'll undo my moderation...)
That depends on the OS.
You do have a point there. But I can count on 1 finger how many OS's Microsoft is targeting with IE.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
That's silly. ACID shows if something works or not. Benchmarks are speed tests that can be wildly inaccurate compared to real world testing. I mean it isn't like browsers are faking it (btw this is my browser: http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/acid3-465.png .. unlike most browsers its not en executable, just open it in any image viewing app) as graphics card companies have.
I don't think 100% is necessary mind you. I do think a passing grade is a good thing.
as in, "The web developer screamed 'IEEEEEEE!' as he lept to his death in frustration." This is known as an injection attack and is becoming increasingly common.
Think global, act loco
Why do people realise how stupid benchmarks are, yet parrot on about ACID all day?
I don't like tomatoes, but I like unit testing. I thought I'd mention that as long as we're tossing out non-sequiturs.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
how many times will it need to suck less before it reaches the non-suckiness of Firefox and Chrome? 42?
IE42, still IE, but doesn't suck this time! Really!
I reserve the right to have a physical object so I can sell it later, and recover my money.
Drunk, with no helmet, crashed?
An Invisible Entity of Vast Power whose existence must be taken on faith alone: Liberal Media
Because the first thing the Mozilla developers probably did as soon as they got ahold of the source was find and remove any code related to the most annoying tag in existence.