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IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

Billly Gates writes "IE 10 just hit the final preview yesterday for Windows 7. Windows XP and Windows Vista support has been dropped. Most slashdotters have a complex relationship with Internet Explorer. Many of us hate it but have to use it in the office. Microsoft had tried last year to make IE good again with the release of IE 9 which had some fanfare on slashdot, such as hardware acceleration and better standards compliance. MS even launched a full campaign to get us to switch. IE 10 is supposed to continue the new process and promises to be much faster and support more HTML 5, CSS 3, W3C HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1 with a score of 320 on HTML5test. As a comparison, last years IE 9 only scored 138. "

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  1. Supporting standards that don't exist? by DragonWriter · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    IE 10 is supposed to continue the new process and promises to be much faster and support more HTML 5, CSS 3, W3C HTML 5.1 and CSS 3.1

    Wait, IE 10 is in final preview and it plans to support W3C HTML 5.1, which doesn't yet have a draft, and CSS 3.1, which doesn't even make sense given the way CSS Level 3+ is done by-module rather than as an across-the-board specification.

    with a score of 320 on HTML5test.

    Whoopty-frigging-do. The stable version of Chrome (23) has a 448. Chrome 10 beats IE 10 on HTML5test.