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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. Posting from IE8... by anss123 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does slashdot work any better in IE9?

    1. Re:Posting from IE8... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Slashdot works differently horrible in all browsers.

    2. Re:Posting from IE8... by electron+sponge · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I'm still seeing the same stupid comments

    3. Re:Posting from IE8... by Byzantine · · Score: 5, Funny

      Consistency is all I ask

    4. Re:Posting from IE8... by Saishuuheiki · · Score: 5, Funny

      Will consistency in inconsistency suffice?

      Or consistently inconsistent

    5. Re:Posting from IE8... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Or doesn't work properly if you have JS disabled since they removed or disabled the old comment controls. In a similar vein, the W3C test results are presented via some javascript crud. Assuming that is that the visitor has it enabled.

      A lot of website functionality is built with JavaScript - that's just a fact of life. You don't have to enable it, but you really can't complain when websites don't cater to the small minority of users who either disable or block all scripts. We're trying to get sites not to support the dying number of IE6 users, and I'd be willing to bet the % of users not using JS is even lower than IE6 users. If all sites were simply written in HTML there would be a lot less 'web' out there.

    6. Re:Posting from IE8... by EvanED · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Nobody disables javascript because they want to, they disable it because javascript is the number one source of web browser vulnerabilities by at least an order of magnitude, probably two.

      No it isn't, not even close. Flash and Acrobat Reader are by far the biggest infection vectors; raw, browser-based JS is positively benign by comparison.

      Stuff like making it easier to do tracking cookies and be generally annoying are JS's biggest flaws.

  2. Not suprising by metrix007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    For all the flak IE gets, it's actually a great browser. We all know Microsoft make great products and often take the lead when forced to, and now is no different.

    It is also the most secure browser by far, what with its inherent use of MAC, and full DEP and ALSR support. Strange, but true.

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    If you ignore ACs because they are anonymous - you're an idiot.
  3. Re:What kind of a "standard" is this? by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Technically ... neither is IE9. This article seems to fail in pointing out that it just compared a browser still in the preview phase to other browsers that are released.

    The "released" browsers are:

    Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 beta
    Firefox 4 Beta 6
    Opera 11.00 alpha (build 1029)
    Safari Version 5.0.2 (6533.18.5)

    The only one which doesn't have "beta" or even "alpha" in its name is Safari. So probably that one is actually released.

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    The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
  4. The test is vastly incomplete... by Dreadrik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...according to the test developers.

    According to wired:

    Run IE9 against other aspects of HTML5 and the browser would be decidedly behind its competitors. IE9 lacks support for Web Workers, drag-and-drop features, SVG animations and the File API, all of which are vital components for building useful web applications, and all of which enjoy considerable support in other browsers.