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W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser

Posted by Soulskill on from the complain-about-the-tests-here dept.

GIL_Dude writes "The W3C posted results for their latest HTML5 compatibility tests and have found that, so far, IE 9 has the best overall results. 'The tests cover seven aspects of the spec: "attributes," "audio," "video," "canvas," "getElementsByClassName," "foreigncontent," and "xhtml5." The tests do not yet cover web workers, the file API, local storage, or other aspects of the spec. Not do they cover CSS or other standards that have nothing to do with HTML5 but are somehow lumped under HTML5 by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.'"

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  1. Irrelevant by loxosceles · · Score: 1, Troll

    A good browser has more to do with continuous improvement than a one-time "we're compatible with the latest standards right now!" IE9 betas may be great today, but shortly after its release, it will be almost certainly be behind Chrome. Shortly after that, Firefox and Safari will pass it by.

  2. Re:Not suprising by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was saying that no other browser is limited to Windows, so it's kind of normal that no other browsers tries to hook deeply into the OS functions as IE does.

    And FYI, not everyone uses Windows. The only time I "use" Windows is to test websites in IE6 and IE7, and Windows XP is trapped in a virtual computer.

  3. So what? It's not shipping + IE8, IE7, IE6 by gig · · Score: 0, Troll

    It may well be that the latest nightly WebKit beats IE9 on this test. It may be that the latest beta of Firefox 4 brats IE9 on this test. But they are all just betas. What matters is what you SHIP. There isn't a single Windows PC or Windows phone that has left the factory with an HTML5 browser. That is years and years behind.

    Worse, most IE users are uses abysmal IE8, IE7, IE6 browsers, and since most Windows users are on XP, which can't run IE9, that will continue.

    So no matter how you look at it, Microsoft has a long, long, way to go to get current in browsers.

  4. Re:Not suprising by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was referring to "Too bad no other browser maker takes advantages of the OS features used to do that." from AC, three levels above my comment.

  5. Re:Not suprising by FredMenace · · Score: 1, Troll

    or this: Limited to Windows 7 / Vista Service Pack 2 or higher.

  6. Re:Let's try this another way. by MichaelKristopeit127 · · Score: 0, Troll
    because the morons who built the system to ban USERS did absolutely nothing to ban PEOPLE.... same as the morons who built the system to limit comments by USERS did absolutely nothing to limit comments by PEOPLE.

    why do you cower? what are you afraid of?

    you're completely pathetic.