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IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off
An anonymous reader writes "Most browser benchmarks are isolated, artificial tests that can be gamed by browser vendors optimizing those specific cases. With only those benchmarks to go on, the folks at LucidChart were skeptical that the IE9 beta would actually outperform other modern browsers in real-world applications. To separate hype from reality, they built their first browser benchmarking tool, based in LucidChart itself. This benchmark is to SunSpider what a Left4Dead 2 benchmark is to 3Dmark Vantage. Product specs don't matter, only real-world performance on a real-world application. The results were surprising. IE9 held its own pretty well (with a few caveats), and the latest Firefox 4 beta came in dead last."
Can we stop including Opera in browser statistics? It has hung in that 1-2% usage range for years. Its claim to fame? tabs? speed? gestures? Nothing unique anymore. It's not open, it's not fast, it's not growing, it's not really used.
It's dead Jim.
Yes, I know, Linux has a low market share as well. It has a real niche though.
... it took Microsoft to finally produce a web browser that performs as well as other browsers were doing in their previous generations, and meanwhile the one they actually have in production (IE8) sucks eggs. So what else is new? Have they got a modern filesystem yet?
Your country functions by having a huge cheap workforce of illegal immigrants so of course nobody in Federal Government is really going to do anything to stop that - not Democrat and not Republican. Also whoever wrote that stuff needs to learn how to use English and what a dictionary is for - "communist" means something completely different instead of just being a generic swear word.
"and the latest Firefox 4 beta came in dead last."
Probably because they screwed around with the interface and nobody could figure out how to fucking use it.
and YOU get the nice lovely feature of more virii and more malware all for using IE9
No, HTML/JavaScript/CSS are merely the worst technologies available. They became popular because they cater to, well, idiots. And there are a LOT of idiots around.
HTML and CSS are a very shitty display technology. Even after 20 years, they still haven't been able to do layout sensibly. So we see stupidity like Flash and canvas being thrown into the mix, because HTML and CSS are so shitty. It's a huge fucking mess.
JavaScript is by far the shittiest programming language in widespread use today. It's worse that PHP, even, and PHP is pretty fucking bad. It's always hilarious to see JavaScript retards compare it to Self or Scheme, which just makes it clear how little those JavaScript idiots know about programming languages.
"Web apps" are always inferior to real applications. Google Docs makes OpenOffice.org look good, and OO.o is quite shitty to begin with.