Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

IE 11 Getting WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools

Posted by Soulskill on from the growing-up dept.

rescendent writes sends this report about new features in Internet Explorer 11: "Microsoft released Windows Server ("Blue") to MSDN subscribers today, ahead of the BUILD conference later this week in San Francisco. The build provides us a number of clues as to what we will see in the official Windows 8.1 (Blue) preview. The server build number is 9341, the Windows 8.1 preview build will be: 6.3.9431.winmain_bluemp.130615-1214. IE11 scores 351/500 + 2 bonus point, and 25/25 for WebGL. Since this is a server build, the score may be a little higher than IE11 on Win 8.1, but this confirms WebGL for IE11. IE11 WebGL Conformance Test Results: 14,748 of 20,509 tests pass (71.9%). Many things seen in the Server 2012 R2 preview will also show up in the Windows 8.1 preview."

3 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. Re:server build? by jrumney · · Score: 2, Informative

    It used to be the case that non-server versions of Windows had limits on simultaneous connections in the TCPIP stack, which could affect web browser benchmark performance.

  2. Re:server build? by _merlin · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are correct - you can get the same results by adjusting settings and policies to match on pro and server. It's only the defaults that differ. Also, yes the included userland functionality is the big difference.

  3. Nothing to do with EOL by tuppe666 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Windows XP was released in October of 2001.

    Yet was not replaced for till Vista was RTM as of January 30, 2007...although XP was still the only viable alternative till Windows 7 in July 22, 2009, although still massively too bloated an OS for most existing XP machines. You measure from the last sale not the first one :)

    But that has nothing to do with my comment which is Browser market share...and the benefits from having one. Personally I love the fact your defending Microsoft treating its customers with second class versions of its software. I am running Firefox 22 on my preferred GNU/Linux right now :)