http://www.daniweb.com/news/story304855.html


Beta is coming out in September. Microsift claims it to be 11 times faster than IE8 and scores 95 out of 100 with the Acid tests (Firefox gets 93.)



Check out the psychedelic browsing: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBrowsing/Default.html

Blessed are the murderous.

i admit i'm impressed by it's level of standards conformance. it's big claim to fame is it's extensive implementation of the <canvas> tag and graphics acceleration. honestly, i dont think i've ever seen it used. unfortunately, it fails the acid 3 test. it's speed improvements are nice but i get the feeling it's weighed on a not-so-realistic scale.

oh yeah, Chrome, Safari and Opera get 100/100 on the acid 3 while firefox 4 beta (as long as we are throwing betas out there) get's 97/100. IE9 is a good step forward but it's not a win because they are playing catch up.






"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2010 10:51AM by Gravis.

I agree with Gravis - MS is moving in the right direction but they are not pushing the proverbial boundary - they are just catching up to where others already are. But since the majority of internet users still use IE this should be a big improvement for them.

i'm very glad that MS made the "IE9 test drive" page http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ because it's given other browsers a kick in the ass to fix performance on various things.

it used to be that FF3 got less than 5FPS when fullscreened on the astroid belt demo http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/AsteroidBelt/Default.html and set to the max number of asteroids but now gets 60FPS all the time. the Flickr Explorer http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/10FlickrExplorer/Default.html was also super slow on firefox but now they get about 30FPS (40FPS on the beta)when it starts with all the animations and a solid 50FPS (60FPS on the beta) after the board is present.

Chrome is also 60FPS on the asteroid demo but surprisingly the flickr demo is about 30FPS which is significantly slower than on firefox and doesnt work properly which was shocking to me.

Opera hasnt released any updates, so they while it works, they still suck at speed.

all that said, MS had to come up with new demos that everyone else sucked at, hence the "psychedelic" demo. so kudos to MS for showing people what needs to be improved in our current browsers and to the people that improved them. :)


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2010 11:59AM by Gravis.

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