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Microsoft Previews IE9 — HTML5, SVG, Fast JS
suraj.sun sends this excerpt from CNET on Microsoft's preview of IE9 in Las Vegas just now. "At its Mix 10 conference Tuesday, Microsoft gave programmers, Web developers, and the world at large a taste of things to come with its Web browser. Specifically, Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, a prototype designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the Web as it exists today and, as important, to add support for new Web technologies that are coming right now. Coming in the new version is support for new Web standards including plug-in-free video; better performance with graphics, text, and JavaSript by taking advantage of modern computing hardware. One big change in the JavaScript engine Hachamovitch is proud of is its multicore support. As soon as a Web page is loaded, Chakra assigns a processing core to the task of compiling JavaScript in the background into fast code written in the native language of the computer's processor." Microsoft didn't say what codec they were using for the HTML5 video demo, but the Technologizer says it's H.264.
"(There’s a pause when the score gets to 39 but the test will continue after a few seconds.)"
That's a fail then, irrespective of the score. The test explicitly states smooth animation.
Why can't they just call it a day, adopt the Webkit or Geko engine (i.e. something that works) and stop torturing web developers with new and ever more useless versions of IE.
Ok. Keep a neutered and sanitized version of IE6 for all those corporate intranet apps that need Active X controls embedded in the browser, but othrwise let it go.
IE10 (IE X) should be based on an open/free engine that actually works and complies with standards, and Trident should be sunk with trace.
The managers at MS must be dopes - pissing away money on new IE version development when nobody wants the poisonous heap of shit that IE is, always has been, and always will be.
Stop torturing innocent web devs and kill IE (Trident) now!
I don't believe for 1 second that MS with its history is not looking at Firefox and/or Webkit to save time AT MINIMUM. If not just doing wholesale copy/paste of open source code!
Unlike open source which has to be careful about volunteers with MS contractual ties getting them into legal troubles or threats of infringement without evidence, MS can steal all the open source code it wants and if they are ever caught who'd be able to go after them and win? Would the settlement be enough to offset the costs of in house development? Probably not.
I remember how hard it was for apple to force disclosure when they stole quicktime's source code - and all that time they didn't bother to delete the apple employee comments in that code... That is how arrogant they were dealing with a big company who likes lawsuits... Gates was in charge back then, now look who we have in charge...
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Yeah, except Dirac is worse at streaming stuff, which is what is needed on the web. Dirac might have better quality for offline viewing, but it sucks compared to the others at streaming.
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When someone makes a non-shitty open codec, people will use it. Theora is not that non-shitty codec.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
All of that behavior is configurable and can be changed to support what you think is the one true way.
Uh, how's your "reading"? I said default behavior. I love open source as much as the next guy but this "if you don't like it, figure out the configuration option or hack it yourself" attitude reeks of elitism.
Now go cry in a corner and leave us alone.
Says the computer janitor posting anonymously.